I used to think.

08 Apr, 2025

Of course, so did everyone. Did they? Did you? I don’t really know, but then again, I never know. I presume to know, just like everyone else, but really? I know nothing.

The nothing I’m aware of, however, is quite expansive. I could name eight types of writing instruments invented before the 1800s, or at least ten types of zooplankton, but to translate a simple interaction between two or more of the human species? I could not.

Thinking, that’s one thing. Speaking? Transliterating my thoughts into a language comprehensible to anyone besides the voices in my head? That’s another. And that thing that it is, it’s just unattainable.