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Originally Posted by graedy
And now. Lets get a bit philosophic. Its gonna be a bit hard to express my thoughts in english but lets try.
I guess many of you read DAve Tates recent article. http://www.elitefts.com/documents/zippy_rant.htm
He kind of talks about meeting the old Dave. The Dave he was years or months ago. The facit is that he is not the same person anymore as the circumstances have changed (e.g. he has kids). Funny thing is that I am not sure who I am now and wondered about that recentlly. For me the circumstances also changed. So I changed. Another thing I do is write diarylike stuff from time to time. I adress this stuff to my furture me. Not myself in the future. I ask questions. Sometimes when I read this stuff from the past I kind of get in contact with my "past me". They say hello. Through time and room. But I also notice that Im not the same person anymore. So I was then and I am now. But lets get a bit more drastic. It needs months or years sometimes only hours to make us aware that we are never the same person. But in fact you are not the same person in the next second as you were the second before. In fact we exist endlessly often for an endlessly short time. And now sit down. That what you call the "this is me" doesnt exist. More drastic "You never exist".
We hate this fact. Our ego hates this fact. This is why we e.g. marry. We promise each other to love each other forever. BEcause this creates a constant that "present you" and "future you" will have in common if you keep to this promise. It defines the "you". That is why we are attracted to dogmas so much.
But objectivly you dont know if the "future you" will love the "Future wife", if the future you will still believe in the same things the "present you" does.
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I can't tell you how much I agree with what you've written. In the last year or so, I've made many drastic changes in my life
PAST ME:
self-centered
procrastinator
heavy drinker (college)
sparse workouts
poor eating habits
no job (college)
PRESENT ME:
on-time (most of the time
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rarely, if ever, drink
daily workouts
very clean eating habits
3 jobs (64 hours/week total)
I've changed a lot recently and I'm still changing... recently i've seem to run into problems of people changing / not changing along with me... very interesting concept.
Keep up the log bro
