Why is it that I see something happening, like, I see where that path is heading, yet I do nothing to change it.
I don’t know… like, I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about.
Like, I’ll be doing something, let’s just say I’m talking to the girl of my dreams–
Hypothetically?
…Sure, yeah.
Really?
Okay, no. But I’m talking to her, and then a moment arises for me to make a joke that would compliment her and make her laugh and blush, but I don’t, because I’m shy. Instead I just smile and look down.
Sounds like you’re just shy.
But I know exactly what I want, and how to get it, but for some reason I don’t go for it. Something’s holding me. It’s like I’m detached from myself where the young, dumb version of me is making all the mistakes, and the older, wiser version of me just watches and says “I told you so.” It’s like the wise version of me is always gone when I’m caught up in a crucial moment. Why can’t he just step in and make me make the right decisions?
…Oh.
What?
I think that’s what fate is.
allmostrelevant 
I have always understood fate as something that unavoidably befalls a person, like death. We don’t know when or how we will die, but we can be certain a day is coming when we will die, right? So death is an example of fate.
However, when it comes to the present, we all have choices. What role do you think personal responsibility plays in our decision making and their corresponding consequences?
i’m a bit confused about the question.
however i’ll say that personal responsibility has just about everything to do with decision making, i think. you act on something if you’re accountable for it, or even if you think someone else is accountable, you might make a decision for them or to help them out because you feel responsible for them in some way. As for the consequences, i’m sure it goes without saying that when you make a decision you know there are going to be consequences… that’s why you’re making the decision, yeah? because you’re weighing the consequences :)
Couldn’t agree more! There have been so many time in my life when I have thought that!
Deep question, AR. You know, right?, that asking those kinds of questions is going to lead you to answers. :)
haha i guess that’s part of the idea
This is where a sturdy cocktail comes in :)
haha
just one?
love it! although very occasionally it works the other way for me… sometimes I say just the right thing, and realise 10 mins later just how great it was….
that’s awesome. i wish i had more moments like that ;)
I love a good internal dialogue. Shy people rule! And thanks for the follow.
haha yes!
Thanks for following the Why The Writing Works blog. :) I like the dialogue you’ve written here. A lot going in a few words. :)
Hmm, kinda interesting stuff you have here.
Read a bit and will return for more.
And AnElephant never forgets!
I always feel guilty or like I missed out if I don’t do the random thought that pops into my head. I’m afraid that I will develop a carpe diem addiction! I’m so afraid of not doing the things that come within my reach. *cold shiver* yucky. Nice post! Keep on going.
I think that’s a good fear to have though haha
God, it reminds me to my own situation. I call this moment “Beat about the bush effect” in my blog when I already left my comfort zone but I am still not entirely in the situation so I am literally an inbetweener. This is the hardest part of every situation when I would like to jump outside my rusty cage and if I don’t have the courage to really jump, I regret and think the same what you wrote: ‘I told you so”…Thank you!
O my god get out of my head….I used to live this lol
“lol????”
Solid dialogue.
thanks :)
you’re welcome!
: )
This is something that happens to almost all of us because we believe that there is something that controls us,our actions but we certainly fail to sometimes believe in our own selves.Only that needs to be avoided. As is the saying -“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.”-Paulo Coehlo.
And the post was very interesting.An Observation done very well ..:)
I like that quote. it’s like, whether fate is real or not, we mustn’t think that it is if we want to live a life worth living
No. I don’t think it is fate. That is the copout. We are each trained and programed from birth by our parents, friends, the news, the movies and music and the society we live in. We all live from the past. We dwell there and make our decisions from there.
Seldom do we live in the present moment. One NEVER “see’s where the path is going . . .” we only THINK where the path is going. Sometimes your view is correct and sometimes you view is not correct BUT YOU CAN’T know because you have gotten there yet. That is what surprise is all about! (I’m not even going to get into the fact that there is no path. Maybe later.)
The present moment is all one has because life is improvisational.
Think on that my friends.
Very well said. I definitely agree with this.
well thought out, i must say, however the first person “I” can be a very stubborn person to convince otherwise haha ;)
but please, chime in, folks!
Nice… Fate… I agree.
We all wear masks. There is us. The us we are around friends. The us at work. The us with the ones we love. They all differ depending who we are around.
I think you should take baby steps and try to be more outgoing. Everytime its in your head blurt it out. Take little leaps. Maybe it is fate, maybe its just the fact that you let what should have been fate lip through your hands. There is some effort that you have to put forth. Life just doesn’t fall in place. You have to work at it.
nice comment. you have to practice at life just like you would anything.
i read “we all wear masks” like how Ben Stein said that line in the movie ‘the Mask.’ and then naturally i read the rest of your comment as ben stein :p
Thank you. I have no idea who that is or ever seen that movie lol. Life isnt a piece of cake.
ah. classic Jim Carey comedy from the 90’s. Ben Stein is also the guy in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” that says “Bueller? …Bueller? …….Bueller….”
I dont watch many movies. It kinda messes with true reality verses my reality.
i’m confused — is your reality not real? now i’m thinking about the definition of ‘reality’
My reality is about 3 degree left of most peoples. I think that’s why most of the time they have me climbing the walls….
I tread a fine line… i hear voices and sometimes see things that arent real… but it seems real to me.
that’s what i think. it’s real to you, so who’s to say otherwise? no one can tell you “no, you aren’t experiencing that.”
Lol yea thats right. Most people dont understand. They think i can turn it on and off or something like that.
Ah, reality ………. the definition of ………
A definition is just the agreement.
It doesn’t make it true. It is just what we do to try to work off the same page.
So it’s a tool we use as a collective to attempt to communicate.
reality ……. “the world or the state of things as they actually exist rather than as they appear or might be imagined”
A person’s “inner dialogue” is universal. Everyone has this happening. Some “voices” are stronger than others. Often these “voices” are in conflict with each other.
Are they “real” in the reality sense?
One may experience them as “real”.
So is your experience “real”?
Couple that with “the fact” that everything is a projection coming from the individual and even if a group of individuals agree on a projection ……… does it really make it real?
It has been said that when Columbus’ ships came on the horizon the native people did not see them because collectively they had no “reality” of ships and therefore they were not in their collective conscientiousness to be seen.
And when the Spanish brought horses to the “New World” the horsemen were ordered to never dismount in front of native people because these people believed that the “reality” of the horse and its rider were one and were fearful of them.
Or even the idea of a “New World”. New to whom?
So ………. do we “know” anything other than what we have been “trained to see and believe”?
You have totally confused the voices in my head. Their question then becomes is there a beginning and an end to a tube sock?
The answer is difficult to really answer. The use of “Their” indicates that your confused voices are in some type of agreed confusion and have become unified in the direction of a single question. Thus they have formed a confused alliance in order to frame this unified question. This to Tubularsock show promise. Well done confused voices!
But the question itself presents limitations. On which plane of reality are the united- confused-voices asking for the definition of “a beginning and an end to a tube sock”?
Should Tubularsock start at the beginning when there is no beginning or at the end where there is no end? Or perhaps in the middle which is in constant flux due to the non-positional location of the no-start and no-finish.
On top of that, is a tube sock the same as a Tubularsock?
You do realize that we live in an expanding universe and ALL is in constant movement ….. there is no thing at rest …..
and it is ALL active at the same moment throughout.
swoon *thud.*
i just thought your socks were ‘totally tubular,’ bro — as if you were rocking awesome socks, and i were from the 50’s or whenever the time was before ‘cool’ became a thing
Arkenstone, the essence of humor is timing ……… you are a master.
Thank you, kind person. I believe it might be the massive amounts of medicine I take…
I hope the massive amounts of medicine you take is helping you. And not to make light of this but perhaps if you took a little bit more you could start writing for Saturday Night Live.
Here’s to you, my friend.
LOL–I take them so my heart continues to beat a somewhat regular beat, except when I see a picture of Richard Armitage dressed as a 4’10-1’2″ hairy dwarf (I’m 5’10”) (visual here) then there’s the one that keep me walking so I can chase that hairy dwarf (I have MS). I have a bit of an obsession for the Hobbit right now….
Oh one of my favorite song is Tubular Bells! Does anyone besides me remember that song?
allmostrelevant, thanks. I suppose you have a point in a rectangular sort of a awesomely like totally pre-cool cool way.
imma go watch da matrix again
Yes, are you the chosen one?
i’d choose myself in a lineup any day
— i mean…
I’ll let the police commissioner know.
There is always something that hides us from the true reallities of our true selves. We hide atimes under disguise, pretence and fear. We need to come out of our hiding place and this will stop many mistakes we do because we allow our weak self to do the outward talking.
but that’s always the thing. often we know exactly what we should be doing, but somehow there’s this disconnect within ourselves, like we don’t want to do what we know is right. either we’re rebelling, or just want to fail. either way it’s strange
Then I go home, sit on the couch and have the conversation I should have had with them. Over and over. And say why didn’t I over and over, again.
True
I guess there’s been a theme of repetition and habit lately with some of these posts…
Great…poetic monologue!
haha oops
it’s supposed to be a dialogue, although it isn’t as dialoguey as my other dialogues