We Know Someone

掃我，朗讀給你聽

We know our friend in a certain light, but we don't know them the way their lover does.

Their mother knows them differently than their roommate,who knows them differently than their colleague. Their secret admirer looks at them and sees an elaborate①elaborate 英 [?'l?b(?)r?t] 美 [?'l?b?ret]adj. 精心制作的；詳盡的；煞費苦心的vt. 精心制作；詳細闡述sunset of brilliant color and dimension and spirit and pricelessness.

The point being, despite②despite 英 [d?'spa?t] 美 [d?'spa?t] prep. 盡管，不管our need to simplify and generalize absolutely everyone and everything in this life, humans are intrinsically③intrinsically 英 [?n'tr?ns?k?l?] 美 [?n'tr?ns?kli] adv. 本質地；內在地；固有地impossible to simplify.

We may hear rumors about a person and believe those things to be true. We may one day meet that person and feel foolish for believing baseless gossip.

We are never just good or bad. We are mosaics④mosaic 英 [m?(?)'ze??k] 美 [mo'ze?k] adj. 拼成的；嵌花式的 n. 馬賽克；鑲嵌of our worst selves and our best selves.

We are all a mixture of selfishness and generosity,loyalty and self-preservation⑤self-preservation英 ['self,prez?'vei??n] n. 自衛本能，自我保護；自我保存,pragmatism⑥pragmatism 英 ['pr?gm?t?z(?)m] 美 ['pr?gm?'t?z?m] n. 實用主義；獨斷and impulsiveness⑦impulsiveness[?m'p?ls?vn?s] n. 沖動. I've been in the public eye since I was 15 years old.

On the beautiful, lovely side of the coin, I've been so lucky to make music for a living and look out into crowds of loving, vibrant⑧vibrant英 ['va?br?nt] 美 ['va?br?nt] adj. 振動的；充滿生氣的people. On the other side of the coin, my mistakes have been used against me, my heartbreaks have been used as entertainment, and my songwriting has been trivialized as oversharing.

Let me say it again, louder for those in the back…

We think we know someone,but the truth is that we only know the version of them they have chosen to show us.

There will be no further explanation.

There will just be reputation.