pre-dathun: ready for everything?

...fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverished the existence of the individual; the relationship between one human being and another has also been cramped by it, as though it had been lifted out of the riverbed of endless possibilities and set down in a fallow spot on the bank, to which nothing happens. For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed, it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive and will hirself draw exhaustively from hir own existence.

--Ranier Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

I'm not ready for everything, but I think myself able to cope. I hope.  I will try.  I want to live in relation to the other as someone, fully alive, subjective.