Narrative is wrapped so tightly around identity and lately I feel that my identity is at risk of losing itself if I can’t commit to getting lost occasionally. Letting real life, not virtual life author a chapter or two. Constant, immediate feedback all the time, every day, even hour shapes the stories we tell ourselves. We become machines of reaction instead of those of proactivity. The praise, the backlash, all of it is dangerous and when these stories become the sum of those we tell ourselves, we get lost in sentences we’re not writing. It is unconscious and dangerous and I want nothing to do with it.

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