Why do we leave impressions?
2026-01-24
Half asleep, unengaged and recaffeinating, meandering and unabridged thoughts about thoughts on thoughts.
Reiterating the question.
Why do youme. Or you if you want leave impressions, on art, on events, on experiences?
Why does anyone? Why does everyone?
Why do you react, and record, your thoughts for anyone to see?
The first guess.
I want other people to know how I feelSympathy.
I want other people to feel the same wayEmpathy.
I want to preserve the feelingAutopathy?.
I want to wear that feeling on my chest, that my own experience be witnessed and relived as evidence of who I am, through comparitive response to a common catalyst
How very scientific! 🧪Or is it self-indulgence?
I want them to understand the emotions that swelled, the questions that arose, the answers I found from the mundane to the contextually incommunicableliquid without a container
How very noble! 👑Or merely imposition?
To be able to share it with others and my future self, creating another tangible landmark of recollection and indelibly texture a memory bound to erode
Such foresight! 🖊Or a bout of existential crisis?️
What other possibilities are you refusing to entertain?
The second guess....ing.
Do you want recognition for media consumptionTo become "known" for it??
Do you want to mingle with the crowdThe methods are just a means??
Do you crave easy interaction via a common topicInviting them in??
Do your thoughts overflow, and are you afraid to let them disperse, to obliviate, become an untethered strand of memoryunallocated reference, unable to recall save random access?
To lose a nascent spark and all its potential, for moments or forever, with regret or apathy?But you don't know which?
To what significance?
Is all your substance from within or withoutWhich one is you??
The chemical reaction of impulse given form or the now-catalyzed reagants of thought?
...Be honest.
It feels nice |
It would be nice |
It is nice |
to be recognized |
to mingle |
to belong |
to meet a kindred spirit |
to hear a like mind |
to know and be known |
It isn't borne of fear. It's just a thought.
An attempt to see the delta.
So what changed?What could change?
The easiest way is to find out |
The easiest way is to try |
And leave a reverent tribute to inspiration |
And leave a conquering flag on a small hill |
Like I said, a landmark.
A monument.
A gravestone.
Here lies a moment of impulse.
Here lies my impression.
Proof of what I was where I was when it wasDifferent from that roman thing, for others to see or to follow or to sneer and scoff and scrutinize, to listen to laugh to liken, mutual affirmation agnostic of acknowledgement.
We all want to Be🐝....
(Post written while reading nostalgia-waxed Youtube comments on Animal Crossing hourly music)