I ran into a friend a few days ago and was so very happy to see her.
We usually hug each other tight but this time she seemed to be someplace else.
I briefly wondered if she might be irked at me. I ran through my mind what had taken place the last time I saw her.
I couldn't think of anything. It bugged me.
I found out this morning that when I saw her she was dealing with a family emergency.
She had been indeed somewhere else, for reasons that had nothing to do with me.
There was a story I inadvertently fabricated; and then there was what was actually going on.
Between my story and hers, a gap.
What is that?
What is that space that lies between the assumptions that we make and what is actually happening?
It's dangerous, that space. It creates most misunderstandings.
It separates us from every one of our relationships, even the one we have with reality.
What would it take to narrow that space, to some day obliterate it forever?
This is what I would start with.
Read other answers by Dushka Zapata on Quora:
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