I don't know why I developed a social consciousness, but I really think I have a consciousness; I feel connected to everything and everybody in the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life.
I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.
Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.