This week on endlaunches, I will talk about the many different ways that people can be different people while we are doing something. I will talk about some of the things that we can do in life that are more like self-awareness than self-consciousness. When we can be who we are in our most authentic self, we will be able to do amazing things.
We can’t do anything like that in the real world though, because we don’t know who we are until we are exposed to the world. There are many different ways to be who you are, but for now I am going to say that we can be ourselves in what I would call the “most authentic” way. Even though we don’t know who we are, we can be who we are in our most authentic self.
I am going to say this again. You may not know yourself, but others know you. There are people out there who are your family, your friends, your coworkers, your bosses, all of whom are able to detect how much you value the things they value. That is your ability, to recognize that others are aware of your values, even when you don’t necessarily acknowledge them yourself.
This is an interesting concept. How do you take over someone else’s personality? By making a decision that you yourself wouldn’t make. We see this with the “fake you” phenomenon now and again. You can fake your way out of certain situations by changing your appearance in ways that others can’t detect. We see this in the way that people like the fake person in the movie Avatar: The Last Airbender or the fake character in The Wire.
I think this is a really important concept. How do you make a decision that you yourself wouldnt make. A lot of the time, you make decisions that you wouldnt make or you dont even think about making. This is a good metaphor for how I feel about my own personality. I dont believe in the “I” in me that I think I am, and I dont believe that that is something that I can change.
Endlaunches are like a real life version of the I in me that you see on the TV show, The Wire. In the show, the characters are constantly fighting their inner demons, and endrunning their lives trying to outsmart the police.
Sometimes we can get our minds all worked up about our personalities, and maybe we don’t think about how we actually feel about our personalities. We don’t really think about our personalities, but we really dont care about their personalities. Endlaunches are just a lot of things we can control and think about, but they are really bad.
Endlaunches are like, “Oh, you know, I’m going to get a tattoo this week.” Or, “I’m going to get my license on Friday.” Or, “I’m going to get my first car in the next week.” They are just like… bad.
To be honest, I would say that most of us probably don’t think about our personalities, but we really do care about their personalities. In fact, the problem is that we forget that we care about them. I don’t know if the reason we end up doing things is because the people who care about us don’t care about our personalities at all, or if it’s only because we’re too lazy to think about them. Regardless, there’s a lot of lazy people out there.
Endlaunches is a game about discovering the personality of the person you are dating. You are supposed to be a single guy with a small job to support himself, who has been told that you are going to be his girlfriend for the next 1-2 years. When you get the car, you find a guy who is similar, but in a way you didn’t expect. You meet the guy in your car, and you can’t decide whether you like him or not.