This journal entry has provided me a reason to record what I am thinking and I'm going to take full advantage of that. I don't want this to come off as unprofessional. I also don't want to give you the impression that I am mentally unstable, but am I actually alive? I've thought of this before, in passing, but I've never truly come to terms with any conclusion I've met. This could be a textbook case of an existential crisis, but "crisis" makes it seem like this has consumed my life or worried me in the least. I'm not on the brink of a breakthrough or changing the course of my life, I still study for the SAT and consume inappropriate amounts of media through my phone. I'm just not sure that we actually exist in a world. And from what I've understood of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, is that we live in a perpetual state of never being 100% sure. Our "lives" are continuing and I am typing words onto an iPad, so I know that something is happening, I just don't know what.
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I was like a skilled reporter who ambushes a politician with a blitz of questions that could potentially destroy the politician's claims. Except in this situation I am both the cunning reporter and the flustered politician. But I can't do that anymore. We could all be existing in a dream and one day our dreamer, who might as well be John Lennon, could wake up and we cease to exist. I know, I'm an everyday
I was like a skilled reporter who ambushes a politician with a blitz of questions that could potentially destroy the politician's claims. Except in this situation I am both the cunning reporter and the flustered politician. But I can't do that anymore. We could all be existing in a dream and one day our dreamer, who might as well be John Lennon, could wake up and we cease to exist. I know, I'm an everyday