Mystery No.3 The Sugar Test

This might disturb youSugar is sweet. Everyone says so. We don’t even question it is one of the first truths we are taught as children. You put it on your tongue, and your body tells you: this is sweetness. I put it on my tongue, and my body tells me the same thing. It seems simple, universal.But if you really think about it, a question appears: how do I know that what I call sweet is what you call sweet?The truth is, I don’t. I can never enter your body, never borrow your tongue, never live through your nervous system to test sugar the way you do. What I call sweet might be sharp, soft, warm, or electric in a way that I can’t even describe and yet, in your mouth, sugar may bloom into something entirely different.We only agree on the word, not the actual experience. And that’s the unsettling part: our agreement might be nothing more than a coincidence of language. We’re not actually sharing a taste we’re only sharing a name.Think about it: if you could step into my body for just a second, taste sugar as I taste it, you might recoil. You might say, “No, no, no… this is not how sugar tastes! This is not sweetness. This is something else.” And if I did the same with you, I’d probably say the same.That’s the psychological truth hidden in the sugar test: each human being lives inside a private world of sensation and meaning. We are surrounded by others, yet locked inside ourselves. We pretend to share experiences, but in reality, we share only labels sweet, bitter, good, evil, joy, sadness. The labels connect us, but the raw experience itself is untranslatable.And this doesn’t stop at sugar. It is the same with pain. My pain is not your pain, even if we both call it suffering. It is the same with love. My love is not your love, even if we both call it devotion. Every feeling, every thought, every spark of perception though we try to express it remains trapped inside our own skin.This can be terrifying, if you really sit with it. It means we are more alone than we think. Even the people closest to us family, lovers, friends do not know what our world actually feels like. They know their world, they imagine ours, but they can never enter it completely.And yet this is also the beauty of being human. Because even though we cannot fully cross into another person’s experience, we still reach out. We speak, we share, we compare, we write, we love. We say, “Sugar is sweet,” not because our sweetness is identical, but because that phrase becomes a fragile bridge between two isolated worlds. The words don’t erase the distance, but they let us at least wave across it.Maybe this is why connection feels so powerful: because deep down, we know it is impossible to fully know another person, and yet we try anyway. We use language, art, music, touch anything that can hint at what lives inside us.So, the sugar test is not about sugar at all. It is about life. It is about the way we each hold a reality that no one else can ever fully share. It is about the illusion of common experience, and the miracle that, despite this, we still manage to find each other.So I ask you when you taste sugar, when you feel joy, when you suffer, when you love do you ever wonder if anyone in this world truly feels it the way you do? Or are we all simply alone in our tasting, united only by words, not by the experience itself?

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