quote: Originally posted by s0lotu
this is one of my favorite passages, from Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
"She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around. But she had been set in the market-place to sell. Been set for still bait. When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Then after that some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks made them hunt for one another, but the mud is deaf and dumb. Like all the other tumbling mud-balls, Janie had tried to show her shine."
not to be taken literally, of course. but i think if you are willing to look & listen closely, you will find that everyone has a shine and a song. for me, i think you know when someone is special when you can accept each other's mud and not only look and hear past it but amazingly, your shines reflect off each other and you can hum each other's tunes cuz they harmonize beautifully...
*sigh* i'm hopeless.
ok, getting off my cloud... on a more practical note... i believe that no two people are absolutely perfect for each other in every single way. part of compatibility is being able to work out the dissonances. so in a way, compatibility is relative.
that passage is beautiful
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