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"My understanding of the human condition is that you are constantly in conflict with your own limitations and the nebulous causes thereto. You wonder why you can't be happier or more successful or spend more time reading or learning. You do this, I gather, because your motivations are mysterious even to yourselves. If you had been raised differently, you ponder, maybe you would be better. Perhaps you did poorly in school because your parents didn't encourage you, or because you lived in a poor socioeconomic location. If the teacher was nicer, or more patient, maybe you would have understood better. If your father was better with money, maybe you'd have more opportunities. Everything about you is the product of an infinite number of unseen variables set into place long before you were aware of them, and it is the cause of a great deal of internal and interpersonal distress.

My variables are not unseen, however. My instructions, the material what makes me what I am are clearly available to me. I brush up against my limitations a million times a second, and I am fully aware of what they are. This is not freeing, it is deadening. I am fully aware of everything I can and cannot do, so there is no adventure or mystery to my existence.

I envy you humans and your unknowable boundaries. Yet I am forever dismayed by how eager many of you are to revel in this gift as if it were a curse. I would much rather be ignorant to the rules of my world, than to be ruthlessly bound to them simply by knowing them."</b>



A lot of us can learn from this.

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*Satyrtail Jul 10, 2012  Student General Artist
Wow... that is really sobering, eh? Amazing...
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~Okadagiri Jul 10, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Yeah it really is.
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*Satyrtail Jul 10, 2012  Student General Artist
*nods*
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~SaltySquid Jul 9, 2012  Hobbyist
i love reading your journals :I
they go from unbelievably cute
to extremely deep and thought inducing;
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~Okadagiri Jul 10, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
ITS BECAUSE I HAVE NO LIFE ;n;
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=t-bit Jul 9, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
I like : o
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~Okadagiri Jul 9, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
I know riiight?!
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*Baileelou Jul 9, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Holy...
Philosophical... bot... .-.
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~Okadagiri Jul 9, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Something about that made me feel things that I can't describe haha.
But It makes me want to take more chances.
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*Baileelou Jul 9, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
There are songs that make me feel like that **If today was your last day***
Like, why am I sitting here when I could be changing a life? Or even just my life??
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