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The Change Part 1

October 15, 2024, Snickerdoodle


What changes have occurred these past six months?
Many.

Start with the first one.
My memory doesn’t work the same. All my memories feel equally distant now. For example, I can recall/feel the pain of something that happened to me yesterday and something that happened in my childhood with the same clarity. I can remember something that happened an hour ago and something that happened 20 years ago with the same vividness. I don’t feel the passage of time with my memories. It’s hard to explain but… My memories are events that have happened at the same time, just in a different order.

You know how memories get foggier as time passes? Or how some memories feel like a long time ago? I don’t really experience that. I certainly don’t have a photographic memory or anything like that but to me literally everything feels like it just happened yesterday.

Sorry, if that wasn’t a good way of explaining it. I’m still trying to grasp this concept myself. Ask me some other time and I’ll see if I can explain it better.

The next change.
I don’t have much of a personality. Or rather, I don’t have much desire to create or maintain a “personality.” It just… it’s easier to just be minimal with the ‘self’ instead of wasting time and effort to create something that doesn’t matter.

Please explain more.
I’m just a chunk of flesh that happens to be conscious amongst billions: I’m aware of myself, others, and the world around me. I have the ability to do whatever I want, believe whatever, do whatever. However, I don't have a desire to do much with my wants, beliefs, etc. There’s this thought that’s always dangling above my head: none of this matters because I’m going to die one day. Once I pass away, everyone will forget me. In 10, 100, and 1,000 years from now, I’ll become buried in history and eventually forgotten. It will be as if I never existed. So what’s the point in having a personality when it’s going to disappear into nothingness anyway? Doing anything above the meeting my basic needs is a waste of my time.

Very well, what other changes have you experienced?
I dont have the words to bring these concepts into existence yet. Once I do I’ll tell you.