It's sometimes an uphill battle to hold multiple side quests on top of your main quest.
Put each stream of thoughts for each quest into compartments, similar to parallel lines that never meet and watch how they bend around each other without ever touching, or so it seems.
It has become almost like a second nature for me to talk mostly about nuanced topics and not straightforward ones, both online and offline.
I'm trying to pinpoint why really that is and the first thought that usually comes to mind is the scope and the ability to go deeper into territories that don't have maps yet.
Depth however, in the truest sense of the term is about discovering that the bottom keeps redefining itself the moment you think you've found it.
How can you tell you've reached the bottom when there's very little shared common ground with nuanced topics?
The common ground is like a tiny piece of land, maybe an island surrounded by a vast ocean.
At any point, you can just build a raft and sail toward horizons that exist only because you're looking for them.
Optics Of Reality
From an ant's pov, elephants are living mountains that breathe, incomprehensible forces of nature whose smallest movements reshape entire worlds.
From an elephant's pov, ants are largely imperceptible, perhaps a momentary tickle underfoot.
From a human's perspective, both the elephant and the ant are caught in the same web of existing without asking why, while we're the only ones obsessed with the question.
It all depends on the optics, which is less fixed and more like looking through water.
Everything appears closer and farther away simultaneously, bent by the medium through which we're perceiving.
Nameless And Edge Cases
I have a mild fascination with suffixes that end with -less.
It's not those types like careless, homeless, jobless. These are usually more in the realm of finite limitations, boundaries you can eventually cross or overcome.
But bottomless, endless, timeless, and weightless. There's something mind boggling with them that makes you question the simulation because they point to the places where our measuring tools become useless.
The -less suffix strips away containment itself and not just the thing being contained.
It's a linguistic equivalent of looking into a mirror placed opposite another mirror.
Nameless things exist in that strange space between being and non-being.
They have presence without identity, like the feeling you get when you walk into a room and sense someone just left, but there's no tangible evidence they were ever there.
My mind seems to crave these edge cases or places where logic starts to stutter.
Maybe because in those moments, one becomes closest to touching whatever it is that's actually thinking their thoughts, rather than just following the well-worn grooves of what people think they know, which frankly is a comfortable prison of consensus.
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