Voice and Man Conceiving of Himself as the Center

We also spoke of sound and how when one hears themselves speak they perceive of themselves as the center. I found incredibly interesting the tendency of man across various times and cultures to perceive of himself and his milieu as such. I wondered about how I had done this in my own life. I wondered about how, when I’m at school, Newport News seems to me to be some sort of center. Yet many others in the world are not even aware of it’s existence. And, while it’s a more notable city, when I’m home on Capitol Hill for summers or breaks, it seems to me that D.C. is the center of the world. How interesting it is that man does this. It’s slightly disconcerting to me that I do this so consistently. I enjoy encountering images and hearing stories of others that inhabit the same red earth that I do. These stories and images hurl me out of the narrow view of the world that I am so familiar with, increasing my awareness of other realities and people the world is home to.