Opening page…
What do you want only because someone you loved wanted it first?
A desire need not have originated with you to become part of the life you choose.
Your answer
A little context
Think of something you want badly: a career, a city, a way of living. Now trace it back. The trail often leads to a person, a parent you wanted to please or a friend you admired, someone whose wanting you caught before you had wants of your own.
Nearby questions
- The bundle that calls itself ILook for the part of you that watches your thoughts. If you cannot catch it, was it ever there?
- What do you owe the child you used to be?Your body, your memories and your values have all changed since then. Some of that child's hopes are still waiting on you.
- What makes you you?A perfect copy of you could wake up tomorrow with your memories, your habits and your love for your people, certain that it is you.
- Would you want to remember everything?Forgetting can feel like a loss of truth or a condition of becoming someone new.
- What flaw would you refuse to have fixed?What looks like damage from the outside may be carrying part of a person's identity.
