woxihuanni
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Anyone else find it strange that you are who you are? I mean, why do we have the perspectives that we have? In other words, how come I see and think through my eyes/brain and you see/think through yours? What makes someone, someone? It's a concept that is very difficult to articulate and I'm not sure if I could simplify it more than that lol
I was thinking of this just last night. It really is like there is a part of us, I can almost visualise it as a pose/an expression, and it determines all the little things. Experience seems to have little effect on it.
My thoughts came from this starting point: I am a rather rare mixture of opinions/stances, and easily irritated by anything that gets too much. But it does not go so far as to hate something simply because it's popular, either. (Though what I hate does coincide with what is popular very often.)
Though I find common ground with most people, and many people click with me instantly, I cannot fully click/bond with someone. Except one person. It's because they seem to have the same brain. Opinions on moral issues? Check. Opinion on a new cheese we try? Check. Gut feeling about new person we meet? Check. It's not just that 'we both have x hobby'. Just that we seem to have a 'crappiness detector' that works precisely in the same way.
But we have very different backgrounds and experiences. I still wonder what makes us the same, and it is a pose I picture in my mind. As if we are going through life putting on a show, but somewhere in there is a child who is really disappointed with everything, and appreciates only wild, natural beauty, and is irritated with all the sensations life is throwing at them. A sort of tired, disappointed, withdrawn pose, but with a tinge of longing for something that is not artificial or forced.
Sorry if none of it makes sense. :)