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rel: Being Fed
If you feel you are getting what you want, spend a day doing the minorly unwanted.
Our attention is driven to what we want. A lot of people try to maximize what they get to meet their want.
What would a day of the minorly1 unwanted be like.
These minor decisions are driven by want.
- What do I want for breakfast? Out of the items assembled, you generally pick what you want.
- You get on the train and want to face forward with the direction of motion.
- You scan the thumbnails. Watch the ones you want, ignore the ones you don’t.
- You dress yourself and pick that color that suits you.
Invert this all.
“Yeah I decided on that one, because I didn’t want it”
Imagine the statement: “We decided to paint our house red, because after much consideration we didn’t want it. We wanted it blue.”
Wear the neglected shirt you meant to throw away. For lunch pick what you dislike on the menu. Ride the train backwards. Watch what you skip.
Any chance you get to meet your want, that doesn’t affect others negatively, go with the unwanted. 2
I saw this app experiment. It was a Universal Caps lock key. Anyone who used it would have their computer’s Caps lock in sync.
Footnotes
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Minorly because it’s more skirting indifference. Something truly unwanted (breaking a leg), probably would make you realize you have more than you want more clearly, in a memento mori kind of wisdom. ↩
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Is this the way to find your nemesis? After this sequence of events of things you do not wish, you find someone by virtue of all you don’t want. Is it you? ↩