WHY ARE ALMOST EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY ALTERNATE SELVES ABSOLUTE FUCKING LOSERS. I UNDERSTAND BEING A TOOL COMES WITH THE BASE IDENTITY BUT COME ON. YOU'RE MAKING THE VERY FEW SENSIBLE AMONG US LOOK SO HORRID EVEN THE DOLOROSA HERSELF WOULDN'T TAKE PITY UPON OUR DEFORMED EXPRESSION PLATEAUS. #VAGUEPOSTING #ORISIT.
I hope I'm not intruding here, but... what do you feel differentiates you from them? Are there qualities you have that they lack, or vice versa?
RIGHT. I SUPPOSE I CAN SUFFER THE INDIGNITY OF LAYING MY BLOODPUSHER AND SOUL BARE ON A PUBLIC SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR THE UNDUE ENTERTAINMENT OF YOURSELF AND THE COUNTLESS OTHER DENIZENS, THE MASSES AS IT WERE, THAT INHABIT THIS VIRTUAL PIT OF DEPRAVED DEGENERACY. THE VARIED UNDIGNIFIED WAYS IN WHICH THOSE WHO SHARE MY MIND, BODY, AND DARE I SAY SPIRIT WITH IS NOT SOMETHING I AM EXEMPT FROM. NO ONE IS EXEMPT FROM THAT. IF THEY THINK THEY ARE, THEY ARE A DIAPERSHITTING MORON WHO NEEDS TO GO BACK TO ENTRY LEVEL SCHOOLFEEDING TO HAVE SOME SENSE KNOCKED INTO THEIR EMPTY, RATTLING NUGBONES. I AM THEM, THEY ARE ME, WE ARE EACH OTHER AND YET, AT THE VERY SAME TEMPORAL PASSING, WE ARE NOT EACH OTHER. WHAT INFINITE, VARIABLE WAYS IN WHICH OUR RESPECTIVE LIVES PLAYED OUT LEAD US TO WHERE WE ARE IN OUR OWN TIMELINES UPON THE THORNY SPLITTING VINES OF REALITY AS WE KNOW IT. OUR LIVES ARE INVARIABLY TIED TO EACH OTHER LIKE SQUEALING, ENSNARED BOARS, YET AS SEPARATE AS THE PARALLEL LINES WE TREAD. YOU ASK, WHAT DIFFERENTIATES ME AND THEM? THE ANSWER, AS FAR AS THE DEEPLY ENDLESS, EVER-SHRIEKING COSMIC PERSPECTIVE IS CONCERNED, IS NOTHING AND EVERYTHING. BUT THE COSMIC PERSPECTIVE? IT DOES NOT TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE MINUSCULE, UTTERLY ATOMIC DETAIL OF THE INHABITANTS MEANT TO LAY WITNESS TO OUR RESPECTIVE PANROTTED DEPRAVITY. THOUGH IN INDIVIDUAL REALITIES, ONES OWN MORONIC, INBRED BEHAVIORS MAY MATTER LITTLE. WHEN YOU BRING IN A MULTIVERSAL, MULTITEMPORAL CLUSTERFUCK OF THIS LITTLE WEBSITE? DOES IT MATTER AS LITTLE AS IT DID BEFORE? IN MY HORRIDLY HONEST OPINION. OUR OWN REVOLTING HABITS HOLD MORE WASTEWATER THAN THEY EVER WERE MEANT TO HOLD. EACH ACTION OF A SHARED IDENTITY CREATES BLOODY RIPPLES OF CONSEQUENCE, SHAPING THE THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS OF OTHERS TO COME TO EXPECT A STANDARD OF US. AS FOR WHAT I THINK DIFFERENTIATES *MYSELF* FROM MY *OTHER* SELVES? IN LAYTROLL'S TERMS, ONE COULD ALMOST CALL IT A "SENSE OF SHAME." OR IN OTHER WORDS, I WOULD RATHER NOT SOIL OUR COLLECTIVE PUBLIC IMAGE BY ACTING EVEN MORE POSITIVELY FUCKING EMBARRASSING THAN I'M ALREADY KNOWN FOR.
This is a thorough and genuinely profound reply, and I appreciate you taking the time to compose it. I think you're right, in a broad sense. The only thing that separates us from other timelines and other selves is the butterfly effect– and, indeed, one could argue that's the only thing that separates us from other people in general. If things had gone just a little differently, we might have ended up with different progenitors, a different childhood, and be an entirely different person. As for your own situation, shame is a powerful motivator. I hope it's motivating you towards a direction that makes you happy.