"People need to conform the external reality they face daily with this subjective feeling they likewise experience constantly."
-- A Naked Singularity
This book makes me wish my everyday conversations were more abnormal.
It's only natural to want to give your own thoughts and feelings significance while paying less attention to others at the same time. To desire that people would acknowledge your words as meaningful and impactful even when they aren't always.
When someone asks you what the highlight of your year was and you have trouble thinking about it because what seems like a highlight to you may not be so for others. and I don't just mean that in the insecure about the worth of my experiences sense, but in the I might kinda value things differently sense. [Good question though.]
You speak of viewing things only in terms of how they affect you, and not on its own terms. Of course, we shouldn't be fear-mongering over issues that likely wouldn't ever come anywhere near us like the news cycle would suggest, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be paying attention to it. Unless the only reason you pay attention is for that direct applicability.
I have issues conforming to things I don't fully accept even though I haven't really thought out why I don't accept them in the first place. Or why I accept the things I do allow myself to conform to.
Sometimes it'd be nice to just disappear, but it's not worth the cost of ignoring responsibilities that would matter to you in the long run.
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