If you could repeat parts of your life if you could reset what you’ve done, would you? What if that meant something painful. What would you do for a 2nd chance?
Crazy idea: what if returning to earlier pages shows pages that are actually slightly different? This essay was like that...https://www.jstor.org/stable/2929888
If you had more time, would you utilize it to its fullest? Would you waste your days away, or would you make memories? After time has passed, would you still remember those days, or do they not matter to you anymore?
Value and memory. These ideas would be so interesting to put into conversation with destiny and choice.
So then when do I really get a break? If we’re playing the number games here, the numbers aren’t adding up to a whole lot of time for rest and relaxation.
What's the impact though of thinking about your life in such quantitative terms?
but the future is still the end goal. A destiny set in stone.
Are you thinking about quantum time here?
The world of homework, of writing on paper, or typing up an essay is so blah. But it’s because of that lack of concentration that I love game design. I get to write out the worlds in my head, create an image in other people’s minds, and share the adventures I subconsciously go on every day.
Do me a favor and read this book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/237251/what-we-see-when-we-read-by-peter-mendelsund/
Because of everyone’s dispositions towards the prophecy, when Percy was discovered to be the son of Olympus, everyone had expectations. The Greek gods and demi-gods on the side of the gods expected Percy to save everyone single-handedly, as per the prophecy. Kronos and the other Titans expected Percy to turn sides and help them raze Olympus. And while reality does not have all mighty beings waging a war over the sole power of the world, our world does have something similar. Expectations.
Much of this talk around expectation sounds like it has more to say about external than internal expectations. How you do think about the origins of those expectations?
I’d go on to do more public speaking, start socializing and meeting people intentionally, and now with college, doing a performance group (Improv comedy). Everyone’s anxiety is different, each a completely unique escape room. The solution to mine thus far likely would not work for other people.
Sure, facing fears works similarly too. Overcame my own shyness and social anxiety in a similar fashion. It'd be interesting to see how generalizable the success of this method is compared to others.
Why is overworking oneself so decorated? At what point is it hard work and at what point is it self-harm? America’s culture around overwork is gross.
Read some Weber on the Protestant Work Ethic and check our Calvinism.
But I’d argue that you still have the choice to walk to those opportunities or to avoid them. Destiny merely offers you chances to change your path. So what will you do now? Your paths are laid out before you, it's time to choose.
So if destiny is just one path, then we have many destinies? Seems rather agnostic in the fate/free will debate.
I believe that to be my destiny.
Where did that come from?
It’s not like I plan for these obstacles to open up. It just happens, and I run with it, not letting the new path that opened up out of sight. And with every path that opens up, it seems more and more as though my destiny is set, as I see that end goal get brighter and brighter.
How do you think of destiny and prophesy then around your own greatness?
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But you don't actually cite where you used these sources.
Is there something seemingly impossible that would make you the greatest at what you do? And most importantly, do you want to be the greatest?
I guess I'm not sold on the idea of greatness necessarily being a desirable ideal. The motives behind this desire can vary so much and some are rather scary.
If you aren't confused or questioning your life choices by the end of this, you didn't read this the way I intended
I wonder how you account for the different ways people might respond to confusion and what you think counts as confusing. That's interpretative on its own.
I've always been one to hate formatting. That's why you don't see any in this work.
What do you mean by formatting here? Citation?