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It's incredibly difficult to translate sensations into words, even at the time of the experience, it's onw of the things we struggle with as humans, I think. The interpretation of experience, communicating that experience first to ourselves to understand it, and then to others to be understood. There is something lost in the retelling, in the echo, impurities creep in, it isn't a perfect copy of that experience, perhaps things get added too, in the attempt to retell it.
I wanted to write this quickly, and perhaps I wrote it too quickly - i had to an appointment, I didn't have much time to get it on to paper, but I also couldn't record it on paper in the instant of experiencing it. Re-reading it now feels like the last part was rushed, the part that felt the hardest and took the longest to me. That final 600 metres or so. The part IK wanted to emphasize in all its rawness and near impossibility.
I guess therein lies the challenge in communication.
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