What’s something you do completely differently from how you were raised?
Travel.
PROMPT: Completely Differently
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PROMPT: On the Street
What’s the best thing you’ve ever found randomly on the street?
I’d like to say common courtesy, but – honestly – a hundred dollar bill.
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PROMPT: Hobby
Share a hobby you’ve picked up recently — what got you into it?
Knitting paracord. I needed to turn a thin piece of cord into a thick piece of cord. True story.
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PROMPT: Coincidence
I’ve had a few incidences having dreams (that seemed uncharacteristic) featuring people that I later found out had died that night or who contacted me out of the blue. I tend to dismiss it as selection bias, particularly as I remember so few dreams under ordinary circumstances.
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PROMPT: Had to Get a Tattoo
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If you had to get a tattoo right now, what would it be and why?
Uh, the only instance of which I’m aware that anybody has ever “had to get a tattoo right now” was in Nazi concentration camps (and the like,) and they were not given a choice of subject matter. As I can’t imagine the scenario in which I had no say in having something etched on my body, but I could choose what was depicted, I don’t think it’s a meaningful question.
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PROMPT: One Day
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If you could relive one day from your past, which day would it be and why?
I’ll take any of those pre-Arthritic days in which I was brimming with energy all the time.
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PROMPT: Uncertainty
Know its inevitability. Ride its currents.
After getting freaked out, realize that being freaked out changes nothing. Might as well see the unfolding of an uncertain event as the unwrapping of a gift.
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PROMPT: Adult
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What’s a moment when you realized you were officially an adult?
That was so long ago. Since then, I’ve come full cycle to find that I’m not.
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PROMPT: Past Self
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If you had a time machine and could send just one message to your past self, what would it say?
“You’re living in a dream world, a simulation, nothing is real.”
Can’t really change anything (see: Novikov Self-Consistency Principle) and I don’t believe people can enact wisdom until they are ready (i.e. whispering wise words in the ear will not make a wiser person,) and so I’m left with fucking with ourself.
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PROMPT: Future Self
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If your future self could send you one sentence, what do you hope it would say?
“Don’t worry, I’ll make sure we die in a reasonably robust mental and physical state.”
I don’t want my future self to get comfortable with the idea of pooping ourself in bed or forgetting the few people we know just because he’s gotten more cowardly about death in its proximity.
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