me, being especially random (surprise)

there is something amazing about the constancy of the world in the face of perpetual change... to see something in a photograph or read about it in a book and think "i have stood exactly there," and to know that it was so very close to the same for so many countless others. but never exactly the same; that tree was smaller, there was a different layer of residue, they added a window where there used to be a door. i suppose the thought that is really tugging at the edges of my imagination at the moment is that so many people can see and experience the same thing, and sometimes the experiences will be virtually identical and others will be different, but everything has a constant. not necessarily the same constant for everything, more a venn diagram of... different similarities... i'm obviously failing with the word thing. if it helps at all, it's connected to the scene in the giver where jonas realizes the apple is red. i always wonder if we can really be sure we're experiencing remotely the same thing. if we can all agree that this particular quality of the apple is red, is that enough coincidence of opinion to call the experience the same? if each person brings different assosciations to the same color, does that make it different?

such a babble of a tangent obviously means i'm avoiding something. i guess i'll get back to it. i'm not high enough to ask this properly (assuming that would even help).