Friday, November 30, 2007

Knowing and Understanding

"You never been through all these, you certainly do not know how I feel. What makes you think that you understand me?" It's a fact that can never be denied. How could someone possibly know one's feelings? Not to say no, but each and everyone of them? Probably the ratio one to zillions. Anyway, knowing one's feeling and understand one's are totally different. As they said, be in one's shoe. Yes, we may imagine ourselves being in a person's situation. And of course, we might know how that person felt. However, we seriously need to go through what that person went through to actually understand it. Just like reading an article, description on how the writer felt when he's far away from home. From the words, we may start visualizing the feelings of being homesick. We know how it feels, but only when we are in such situation, we truly understand each and every words in that essay meant. So, you know or you understand?