In wonder
Has your idea of what makes a good friend changed as you’ve gotten older?
Just about everything has improved with age, experience, reflection, trial and error and listening to myself and paying attention more and more to the better stuff and less and less to crap. Friends are part of the process. So the process applies to friendship.
What’s a personal mantra or philosophy you live by?
Ask the Sea what mantra It lives by?
We get this answer, the blueprint, in how a person affects us over time or by comparing patterns of who and what they become and what happens around them, and what around them becomes- clearly we don’t have AIs ability to track most of these causes and the ripples of their effects but saying such a thing for myself?
As if there’s just one?
I live by the mantra of calm…
No I don’t! Does the Sea?
It’s unfathomable. It’s like describing Life/God to even imagine summoning up even the most simple human- that’s an oxymoron- Simple? Even the most clear or single minded human can’t be reduced into living by one thing.
Not even a two-dimensional character modeled after the complex of complexity human being could be submitted to this query with any degree of rationality. We all run on multiple pre-installed, life, family, culture, friend, work, chosen and unchosen, imagined, unimagined, mantras-plus all the stuff we do while trying not to, could hold the sea in their mouth like this requires- though we are both the drop of sea water and the sea somehow.
