Thursday 7/18/24
I just don't feel like having a cat or cats should be one of the defining qualities of your life. As in, "Here is one of the chief things to know me by."
I saw a woman on a dating site who had a dog named MAGA. That's not going to work.
When someone on a dating site announces--with the twenty words (max) that comprise their profile because they have nothing to say--that they're liberal or conservative, they look exactly as one would expect--you'd have to be pretty stupid to miss these things--as a representative of the one group or the other. It's like people are just made of the simplest two or three building blocks. There's no nuance. There is no individuality. They're like things that come out of a box clearly labeled on the sides.
Why do people capitalize random words? Some of them must look over what they've written, even if it's one in a hundred. Why does that person not ask themselves why they capitalized those random words? How does it never occur to them to change them? Do they think, "Looks good to me!" Do they think? Can they? What does it take to get them to?
Why do people put four or five commas in a row? Do they say to themselves, "It's time to use one of my ultra-commas!"
I couldn't know someone who says, within those aforementioned twenty words, that they love country music. It would be impossible for me unless there were mitigating factors. Like it had something to do with work.
Do the people who write--the millions and millions and millions of people--"Life is too short for games," ever think that if life is really so short then perhaps it's too short to say this stupid thing that millions and millions and millions of people identical to them say? And that maybe if it's so short--the implication being that it's precious--that you should be your own person who says their own things?
The idea of someone being their own person makes people very angry. They get angry with someone who says a person should be their own person for two reasons: The correctness of the statement and because of a perceived inadequacy that would prevent them from ever being their own person. Note how I put that--perceived inadequacy. Perception isn't necessarily reality. It often isn't. Rarely is it. People have much more agency than they allow themselves to act on.
It must be a very low percentage of people who can live their lives and deal with the challenges of life sans self-medication. I guess you could say that many things are a form of self-medication. Listening to music. Exercise. But they're not really, and one knows what I'm talking about regarding the various forms of actual self-medication. Do people never attempt to come up with other outlets? Is there nothing else they try?
How often do you think people introduce anything new to their lives? How about a better way of being? How often do you think they think, "This isn't so great, I should change it, what can I do to change it, what would be a better alternative?" and then get started with what they deem the alternative to be? Do you think it's one out of ten people? A hundred? A thousand? Ten thousand? I would say it's more than ten thousand.

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