[fierceawakening]

Weird question time: what does it mean not to have a stable sense of self?

I ask because I am not sure I’ve experienced that. Every time I’ve felt something that I can imagine describing that way, it hasn’t been about not knowing what my self was, it’s been about being ashamed. Like, being convinced that what I know is important to me is bad and trying to disavow it and feeling unmoored in response because nothing I tried to replace it with felt right.

Is that what not having a stable sense of self is? Or does not having a stable sense of self mean literally not being sure what you like and want, rather than just not being sure it’s ok to want or like those things?

[cromulentenough]

I don’t know if i have a stable sense of self, but like, i feel that i get easily convinced or swayed by people and I pick up mannerisms from people i like and talk to or hang out with a lot, i feel like i don’t have very much of a personality. I do have likes and opinions and aesthetics that i like, but not that many that are strong and i feel like it’s hugely affected by people i like around me or that i respect or follow online. I find it hard to decide whether i like something a lot of the time when it comes to things like media.

[mitigatedchaos]

Yessssss,

just keep reading this blog and start believing that we need to replace the government with the thing that comes after what happens when you fuse think tanks, political parties, a hypothetical National Utility Function, and stock markets, wearing uniforms from old governments whose era long since passed, and preparing for the final robot war to seize control of the Moon

nothing could possibly go wrong