isis: (squid etching)
Isis ([personal profile] isis) wrote in [personal profile] primeideal 2020-08-22 06:05 pm (UTC)

Heh, sounds like the movie "The Butterfly Effect" is kind of a response to this.

I think as I've gotten older my ability to remind myself that imagining a spherical cow is NOT a solution, that I have to work with the cows that exist and not the cows that don't, has improved. I used to get very upset and agonize about things that I screwed up, and wish so hard I could turn back time to make them not happen, and, I mean, I still burst into tears when I accidentally scraped the side of our new car a couple of years ago. But I'm better at letting things like that go.

(but I like existing and the only case in which I could seriously imagine not wanting to exist would be if I accidentally killed someone dear to me.)

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