Trying to understand people “as ideas” isn’t sufficient to capture their whole essence.
People change rapidly without following a perceivable pattern. Ideas also change, but gradually and logically, through a thought process that the mind can easily follow.
People are physical bodies and emotions and ideas, and they’re not fully in touch with what they “are”.
To understand is to create an abstract version of something, whether physical, emotional, stable, or fleeting.
Understanding is the highest gift anyone can offer, even to one’s own self.
Maybe my purpose in life is to turn myself into an idea to purify myself from what is human.. From what is physical and fleeting.