Originally Posted by tandempower

This wishing to be perceived and understood by others probably has something to do with why many people don't value interactions with animals and non-living things the way they do human-human interactions. If you are walking through a forest with trees and the trees are shading you and providing plenty of clean air and water and scenery for you to look at, you could simply appreciate the living ecology around you as expressing its energy while you also express yours. All that intersecting energy can be considered like a symphony of sounds waves, light, aromas, forms, etc.; but if you narrow your standard of interaction to verbal human-human interactions, then the rest just seems like background scenery that's not interesting to interact with