- Fri Mar 06, 2020 2:16:14 pm
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Chris wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 2:02:38 pmVery sweet. I'm guessing that from the way you played the game, my way of thinking isn't too far from your own.Susie wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 2:01:38 pmSusie, you're a gem. Don't ever change.Reem wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 1:28:38 pmI feel that we're all the stars of our own story. The events of our lives and the people in them shape how we see ourselves and how we rewrite the story in our memories. Because we cannot live anyone else's lives but our own, we'll never fully understand other's motivations and they'll never full understand ours. Even close siblings will have completely different memories of the same events because of how they've rewritten the stories in their minds.
What is life right now? Where is susie, I need her equalizing ability
If a miracle happens and out of the millions of people that will never understand us, we find some that do, we hold onto those people as long as we can. They offer an oasis of mutual understanding that most others can't come close to and it feels so good, so life affirming. I've gotten to the point in my life where I no longer put much energy into those who do things that I can't understand or find me too difficult to understand. Instead, I focus on relationships with people who get me and who I get. It's way less stressful and much more fun.
In a game setting like this, the paths to mutual understanding are a bit twisted, but still present. We gravitate towards those who get us. I should have taken my own advice and given up on a non-working relationship much sooner myself, but I'm a tenacious fool sometimes. I do much better assessing the viability of a new relationship in person, as well likely all do.
I think it's human nature to want others to see things the way you do, but at a certain point, one just must accept that it isn't possible. In a game where someone maliciously hurts us, it feels normal to give them shit and make them regret it. But when a person simply has an peculiar world view and I know they may also have a fragile psyche, it just feels like a waste of energy to be unkind. Neutral, sure, but when things get negative or mean, they also affect ME negatively, and I must live my best, happiest life, it's the only one I'll get.
Theses are just my own values though. I find they've led to a peaceful happy life, but that might not be your experience. I would never want you or anyone else to make my choices unless they were also your choices.
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