We all carry within us a world that no other human can ever truly visit. It’s a lonely feeling, to know that there may never be a person who can understand every molecule of your life, every thought and feeling that passes through you. We yearn for connection, for the ability to touch someone’s knee and feel the weight of their experiences, to know the fear that consumed them in childhood, the happiness of their freedom, the way they fell headfirst into love for the first time.

We accumulate within us all these worlds, all these stories that we’ve lived and wanted to live, creating a collective dream that we hope to share with someone who can understand it. But what we desire the most is something that falls deeper than words, something that exists in the space between two humans that can’t be touched by language. It’s a connection that transcends explanation, that defies description.

And yet, there will always be different people from different worlds. There will always be someone who is native to all that we harbor, who can understand us in ways that others cannot. But even with these people, there’s always something missing. We may be looking for something completely selfish, the most human relationship that we can imagine.

We long for someone who is so in tune with the subtle nuances of our being that they can sense our pain just by the way we hold our hands on our lap. But even with these people, there’s always a sense of yearning, a feeling that something is still missing. We may never find that person who can soothe the ache of our desire for connection, but we keep searching, keep hoping, keep dreaming.

In the end, we may never be able to fully explain the color of our eyes to a blind man or the sound of the ocean beneath the moonlight to someone who’s never heard it. But we keep trying, keep reaching out to others in the hope that we can find that connection that we so desperately crave. And even if we never find it, we keep dreaming, keep yearning, keep living our lives to the fullest.

Copyright © Beatriz Esmer