Do you ever get the feeling that you are in the middle of two very similar conversations? You feel like you are speaking, but the people talking are a little off-kilter.
Let me give you an example. I’ve been in a conversation with a fellow coworker that I’ve had for a while, and I haven’t had much luck getting her to understand me. It’s been a while since we last had a conversation that she understood me well enough to discuss what I was saying.
Sometimes the people that you would consider to be on the same page of your thought processes can’t agree on the same thing. This is especially true if you’re talking about certain topics. If I’m talking about the merits of various political candidates, I can agree that I think they’re all terrible, but if I’m talking about the merits of a particular policy, I can’t agree with you.
So, me, I wouldnt call myself a libertarian. I would call myself a self-conflicting person. I am a person that tries to live life on a constant collision course with my own values, and I try to constantly learn and evolve along with my beliefs. I like to think of myself as being constantly “on the ball”, and this is what I try to do in my daily life.
I think that is the main reason why I don’t vote. I don’t have a strong sense of self and I don’t feel like I can express my self to the point that I can make a good decision. The feeling that I’m not in control of my life is actually quite comforting.
Another way to look at this is that we need to have an emotional connection with the decision that we make. Like the saying goes, “The only way to make a decision is to make it a decision.” When we make a decision, we need to have a sense of self and we need to feel the desire to try and make that decision. I think it is the same as the feeling of being on autopilot.
There’s also the feeling that we’re not making the right decision. The feeling that we’re making a decision because we’re trying to please ourselves, but the fact is, we’re making a decision because we need to make a decision. Like, when we’re on autopilot, we don’t have a choice.
In a sense, we have two selves. The first is the self we perceive as ourselves. Most of us have an idea of what that is. For some of us, we may also know what it is we would choose it to be. We are the decision makers. And we can make a choice that is the wrong decision because we think it is the right decision. We are a part of the decision making process and so we can either go with the right or wrong decision.
One of the things we look for in a job is a lot of autonomy. That means you have the freedom to choose your activities and the things you will do.
This is why I loved this video from self-conflicting. This guy is in a self-conflicting job where he has two jobs: one to pay bills and another to go out and do stuff. These days, we’re all told that self-conflicting jobs are necessary to keep our job prospects high, but I don’t think they’re true.
