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Bubblegumgabber

I often found it odd how many inanimate objects that were supposed to represent us that we were given and yet told not to feel like. A plastic toy for the world to use. School a factory for emotions, peer pressure a heat to mold the plastic, adulthood the misshapen cast we all have zero choice to be stuffed into and yet we are supposed to carry an individual pulse? The difficulty of that is endless and you captured that perfectly.

3 years agoReply

bunnybear

i really love when you said that peer pressure as a heat to mould the plastic. Like, our identities are firm yet changeable by what others think. Our morals are firm but changeable at the right amount of pressure and the right amount of heat.

3 years agoReply

Bubblegumgabber

@bunnybear, i believe the personality is as fluid and solidfiable as molten rock and peer pressure as the greatest of heat we all try our best to be our best but that is often based on others.

3 years agoReply

bunnybear

@Bubblegumgabber, i see where you’re coming from.
If you were raised in a society where murderers were treated like royalty, then youd want to be the ‘best’ - which in most modern societies would be seen as the ‘worst’. Even our ideal life is based off of what others would think of it?

3 years agoReply

Bubblegumgabber

@bunnybear, true but thats the point isnt it if peer review never exited we wouldnt have made it to where we are. It takes monsters being monsters to remind us how to be better, so the heat isnt the problem its the motive. As i am today i believe my motives have shifted towards genuine connections more than being right or feeling "good" life isnt about intent its about awareness and pattern recognition so i will strive to be aware of my motives and recongnize the patterns that have shaped me and rely on the heat from those i trust to shape me into the better we deserve.

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