Ramage, Chapter 2

I enjoyed the part in this chapter when Ramage discusses that things exist even though we are not always conscious of them in our lives. He gives the example of the tree falling in the forest when no one is around to see it fall, but we still however believe that it falls. I could relate when he said that few of us really consider things outside of our own selves, and our own consciousness and language. We know that things happen outside of ourselves, and have faith that they do happen, but we don't really take the time to question it.

I thought it was interesting when Ramage used the example of the couples who have been married for 50 and 60 years and still found themselves seeing their partner as the younger person they first encountered. Maybe sometimes we assume that these couples who have been together for so long have just grown comfortable with each other and their shared lives together, when in actuality it is much more complex. We have to be able to see a character, like these couples can see each other, as who they previously were, the characteristics they once had, and then contrast it with what who they are now in order to see the whole picture.