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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Thanks for the quality comment. It really is difficult to define since the sense of self is just a concept to begin with.

    By being yourself, I would take that to mean being true to your intentions, interests, and general demeanor in the moment. All those can change with time.

    Avoiding things like pretending to be interested in sports, pretending to hate comics, pretending to be a “player”, pretending to be overly macho, hiding politics, etc are all things that I have seen people do. If your interests change that’s normal but I wouldn’t recommend feigning things that are untrue for you in the moment.

    I think aspiring for self improvement would still count as being true to yourself if you genuinely want to improve.


  • Just be yourself also is good advice. Not that it will always be successful in advancing the relationship. But it will be less stressful for you and prevent you from wasting years of your life with someone who only likes you for your fake personality.

    If you have a horrible personality work on that so just being yourself doesn’t mean being an asshole. Even then though at least anyone getting into the relationship will know that ahead of time and not after the divorce.




  • I used to care a bit, check expiration dates, not leave food out, wash hands, etc.

    Since covid though I built up a habit of constantly washing hands, hand sanitizer, smelling all my food, avoiding touching stuff in public, still wipe grocery stuff like milk jug handles, etc.

    Besides covid itself, I had bad experiences in 2020 with food quality becoming extremely poor. Even canned food would be made out of fermented tomatoes. If something fresh was in stock it was moldy and gross. Food still isn’t that great and I don’t really trust it now.