Comments on: Imaginary Commencement https://habitablezone.com/2014/05/18/imaginary-commencement-2/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:45:24 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2014/05/18/imaginary-commencement-2/#comment-30715 ER Tue, 20 May 2014 03:46:14 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45039#comment-30715 Most of the people I know are predictable as hell, and they don't even realize it. I would be a fool if I thought I was any different. Most of the people I know are predictable as hell, and they don’t even realize it. I would be a fool if I thought I was any different.

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2014/05/18/imaginary-commencement-2/#comment-30710 bowser Tue, 20 May 2014 01:17:16 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45039#comment-30710 18 y/o HS graduation. Going to live until I die, know about everything worth knowing, what would I have heard? None of that or anything else. I stopped listening to lectures at six. Anything past that was ignored. My character was set, what I would do was predictable and the only thing to which I responded unpredictably was affection or immediate negative consequences. Now, that's my loss, and my mistakes, and I paid the price. And I don't think I was unusual - by 6 the person has been created, and the rest is simply expressing it. 18 y/o HS graduation. Going to live until I die, know about everything worth knowing, what would I have heard?

None of that or anything else. I stopped listening to lectures at six. Anything past that was ignored. My character was set, what I would do was predictable and the only thing to which I responded unpredictably was affection or immediate negative consequences.

Now, that’s my loss, and my mistakes, and I paid the price. And I don’t think I was unusual – by 6 the person has been created, and the rest is simply expressing it.

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