Redcliff

Sometimes it is only two distortions fitting perfectly together.

One person seeks significance through elevation. The other seeks it through diminishment. One says, “I matter more.” The other says, “I matter less.” From the outside, the arrangement can appear stable, even harmonious. Yet both are built upon the same mistake.

Neither person stands fully in their own worth.

And because they cannot fully recognize their own dignity, they struggle to recognize it in the other.

What binds them is not necessarily love, but compatibility. Not genuine encounter, but mutual function.

The tragedy is not that they need one another. We all do.

The tragedy is that they meet as solutions to each other’s wounds rather than as human beings of equal worth.