Thinking randomly thinking... randomly...
If you could swap lives and perspectives (and / or bodies) with anyone in the world, who would it be? Why? And even more - would you? What do you think might be the outcome of an experience like that? There would probably be some pretty serious eye-opening situations and perspectives... you might come to realise that people see you very differently than you see yourself... or you might just come to see the world in a different way. But what if you came to notice that things you've taken for granted as part of what you see as "life" is wrong.. or just, different... it might completely change your view of the world... and life... and yourself.
It might ruin everything you thought you knew. It might make you doubt yourself and everyone else for the rest of your life.
Or... maybe it would change all the doubts you have. Maybe it would take away any type of doubt you ever had. I mean... how long are we talking here? One day? A week? A year? If you were "gone" too long, you might become somewhat "lost" and be disorientated when trying to return. So... let's say one day. How much can change in one day? There are lyrics which go (I believe) something along the lines of "what a difference a day makes..." and we've all (at least should've if not) seen Run Lola, Run... but seriously, can an event which lasts only one day really change your life? Obviously, we could say that someone being killed or paralysed in an accident would go through a life changing event which would take only minutes, or even seconds... so obviously there ARE things that will change your life in a short period of time... but could something like this.. something that is really only psychological... something to do only with your perspective... could it change your life so dramatically?
Assuming it could...
And assuming you go through with this kind of experiment...
You become someone else for 24 hours.
Perhaps you come to realise that other people have it tougher, or less tough, or just the same as you have it... you might see that EVERYONE is a little frail sometimes, a little strong sometimes, a little smart and a little dumb... you might just stop wondering... stop doubting... and just get on and do what you always hoped you could do but always worried that you couldn't...
But then, they say that an angry, bitter man who wins a million dollars will just be an angry, bitter RICH man... a leopard doesn't change it's spots and you can't teach an old dog new tricks... etc...
So doesn't it follow, then, that no matter what we go through, we will just keep being who we are already being, because that is what we really want, and that is why we are being that person?
Couldn't it be true, then, that there was absolutely no point to this entire spiel...? This randomly generated collection of text might be like, well not a million monkeys, perhaps just one monkey, on one keyboard, writing random words and coming up with the works of just that one monkey...
Anyone else prefer Shakespeare...?
It might ruin everything you thought you knew. It might make you doubt yourself and everyone else for the rest of your life.
Or... maybe it would change all the doubts you have. Maybe it would take away any type of doubt you ever had. I mean... how long are we talking here? One day? A week? A year? If you were "gone" too long, you might become somewhat "lost" and be disorientated when trying to return. So... let's say one day. How much can change in one day? There are lyrics which go (I believe) something along the lines of "what a difference a day makes..." and we've all (at least should've if not) seen Run Lola, Run... but seriously, can an event which lasts only one day really change your life? Obviously, we could say that someone being killed or paralysed in an accident would go through a life changing event which would take only minutes, or even seconds... so obviously there ARE things that will change your life in a short period of time... but could something like this.. something that is really only psychological... something to do only with your perspective... could it change your life so dramatically?
Assuming it could...
And assuming you go through with this kind of experiment...
You become someone else for 24 hours.
Perhaps you come to realise that other people have it tougher, or less tough, or just the same as you have it... you might see that EVERYONE is a little frail sometimes, a little strong sometimes, a little smart and a little dumb... you might just stop wondering... stop doubting... and just get on and do what you always hoped you could do but always worried that you couldn't...
But then, they say that an angry, bitter man who wins a million dollars will just be an angry, bitter RICH man... a leopard doesn't change it's spots and you can't teach an old dog new tricks... etc...
So doesn't it follow, then, that no matter what we go through, we will just keep being who we are already being, because that is what we really want, and that is why we are being that person?
Couldn't it be true, then, that there was absolutely no point to this entire spiel...? This randomly generated collection of text might be like, well not a million monkeys, perhaps just one monkey, on one keyboard, writing random words and coming up with the works of just that one monkey...
Anyone else prefer Shakespeare...?
posted by Arithon @ 10:03 PM
1 Comments:
At 11:03,
Pablo said…
Shakespeare is pretty awesome.
And trying to change who / what you are takes a lot more effort than most people can apply.
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