People and Roles

We can think people exist only in the roles in which we know them, as though they had no being when we are not with them.  No life when not in this house, when away from this classroom, or when they leave this shop.  We may see the lesser aspect of them and think it is all there might ever be.  We may evoke only a very secondary response, a prospect that may not say too much for us, but even were they at their most vital in our company they are still not complete in this one setting.  It might be helpful to even visualize them elsewhere.  Even though that realm is not ours to share, knowing it was helps complete them in our eyes.