The thought of me having no personality came
to me, and it was fairly reasonable.
But then it occurred to me that one does not have to be remarkable.
I used to think that I need to be good at something, more so than anyone around me. Be into some kind of subculture, that makes me more edgy and different from everybody.
The thing is, I am indeed a one off limited edition. Even with identical twins who share the same DNA, they are unique individuals on their own. One's existence is more important than its essence. Or whatever that quote translates to in English. Being itself, is more important than its properties.
If I upload all my memories to a computer who have AI to implement all those data, it is still, not me.
In fact, I am quite different from everyone around me. It makes me different, and not different at the same time. Everyone is.
Reading three books in the same field makes you more informed in that field than the majority of people. Liking something indicate a preference for something. All these accumulate to form an individual quite different from anyone in this world.
We do not need to be remarkable, in fact the majority of people in the world is far from what we consider to be remarkable. From a statistics point of view, it is not likely that we could achieve '15 minutes of fame' in our lives anyway.
People who went viral from tiktok is unlikely to foresee themselves doing so either.
Why bother to make yourself a little more different than the past yourself and make the present yourself miserable?
One could be quite remarkable and unique already, in the eyes of a loving family and close friends. That is what should matter, more so than however many followers on twitter who barely know you.
24 MAR 2021
