Glad to see "The Well" make a return. I'm looking forward to your answers.
If you could make a 30 second speech to the entire world, what would you say?
What do you regret most so far in life?
When will you be good enough for you? Is there some breaking point where you will accept everything about yourself?
How do you really KNOW anything for sure?
How do you deal with someone in a position of power who wants you to fail?
Would you rather lose all of your old memories or never be able to make new ones?
don't run. i'm here. let's all just believe in one another. i will protext!!!
fireworks night
idk i think this is kinda paradoxical?? i accept everything about myself now that i'm conscious of, but "good enough" is the kinda thing that i think would undermine me trying to do things better and better the next day. i'm a self-improvement kinda guy. i think it's possible to feel "yeah this is good enough" in a "i'm on the right track" kinda way. i think it would be sad to be young and say "yeah damn i hit my limit i'm please. let's coast the next few decades"
how do i know anything for sure, or can one be said to know anything for sure? i think the latter is easier to answer, because you can just play word games and define knowledge as something categorical and finite. "justified, true belief" is pretty popular but it REeally bugs me because if you already have knowledge of something being "true" then whether or not it is knowledge is completely moot. i think those kinds of approaches miss the point. in an actually helpful everyday life sense: it fits logic, and it feels right in your gut
i guess this depends on the person, the position of power, and what they want you to fail?? but i would say you just believe in yourself and know that someone trying to stop you is just the same a gap you have to hurdle as any obstacle in achieving something; if you've accounted for "practice everyday" in your schedule to be a fantastic pianist, just view the bastard that keeps trying to sabotage your piano practice the same way. approach finding a solution with a clear, level head, use logic, and believe in yourself
gosh that's a stickler!! i think though ultimately i have to answer lose all my previous memories, because i think not being able to form any new memories of any kind would debilitate you so much that any effort to live life would not be eased by the comfort of your memories before making this choice. it would just screw up all of your mental processes; you couldn't learn anything new, sure, but on a much more fundamental level you wouldn't be able to comprehend the present and the passage of time because you wouldn't have any consciousness of what just happened etc. so yeah, totally just wave goodbye to the old ones in order to forge forward, i think!!
