People

Human beings are so incredibly amazing.
We take ourselves for granted, I think, because we don't realize who we are or what we have.
In this post... I kind of want to focus specifically on a single person and communication between us all, which is something I continue to be surprised by daily.

I'll start all this off with a basic, plain question.
What is a person?

There are probably over a billion answers to that question.. it all depends on how you approach and interpret the question.
Here are a few different responses to the question:
Google - 'A human being regarded as an individual'
Bing - 'An individual human being'
Yahoo - 'A living human'
Wikipedia - '...a being, such as a human, that has certain capacities or attributes constituting personhood, which in turn is defined differently by different authors in different disciplines, and by different cultures in different times and places.'

Those are fairly logical standpoints.. which, to be honest, I'm not really going for in this post, but I figured I should probably provide examples.
I like to think that a person is someone who is individual and, although there's similarities between he/she and others, they are, at their base, unique.

So pretty much every human being on the planet.
But.. the thing is.. people amaze me. I can't even comprehend how absolutely incredible we are.

You, reader, are unlike anybody else. You were born under different circumstances, you grew up unlike any other human being on the planet, you have your own individual strengths and weakness and you are absolutely, incredibly unique with your own memories and past and future ahead of you and you cannot be duplicated.
Just consider that for a minute.
Nobody else experiences food or feels things quite like you do. Nobody will react in the exact way that you do to every situation because you're a unique individual. You're a person.
Not only is that mind-boggling and incredible..
But there's billions of people.

There's countless amounts of us and we are each different with our own stories to tell.
We communicate with each other and we merge and separate and that is beautiful and unbelievable and a miracle.

-Rylie

Totally applicable John Green quotes:
"It's easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined."
“And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.”