Too complex to be understood

By 2025, there are over 8 billion people on Earth, each with their own personalities, preferences, and secrets. Being in the same room every day, spending weeks together, still does not guarantee that you will know every bit of a person. A person is too complex to be fully learned, and even more so, to be understood.

Made up of millions of cells and infinite ways of thinking, I doubt even a pair of lovers could truly understand 100% of each other. Hence, friendship is even more complex. When you think you know someone, in reality, you do not. Not even a little.

I have been trying to trust people, at least by giving 90% of my trust. I have been trying to be more open and honest with my intentions. It may sound naive to trust people so easily, but I am trying not to hide anything from those I have chosen to trust, especially those who have treated me kindly.

Yet sometimes, people simply do not see you the way you see them. They are not a reflection of you, nor are you of them. When you think you have understood their patterns and how their algorithm works, you eventually realize that you have not. Some secrets remain, even the big ones.

I have sensed such a secret for quite some time but chose not to take any action. I have been observing, and the time for that secret to finally surface has come. A complete shock; nonetheless, I was prepared.

It is always the unspoken will of others that disappoints me the most, and the fact that I never hear it directly from the source.

A disappointment remains, but then again:

Humans are complex beings, made up of millions of cells. If one cannot even understand oneself, why bother trying to understand another?

Keep a smiling face, and act as if you understand, even when you do not. It might just keep you safe and sane.