Hi Liam! So I’ve been thinking about how each of us have our own level of self-awareness. I’m sure there are other contributors to that but I’m just going with mine. I know that I am fully aware of my actions and reactions to others. I can accurately predict how I might feel, what actions I might take, what responses I might have, and I can accurately predict what the next thing I might do will be.
The thing is, you can’t predict your actions or reactions. If you don’t know what you’re going to do, you can’t do it. If you don’t know what you want to do, you can’t do it. And if you don’t know what you like or dislike, you can’t do it.
That’s a very valid point. It’s not always the case that we’re aware of what we’re going to do or like or dislike. We can be very bad at this sometimes, but in general, we don’t have a lot of control over our thoughts and actions.
I say this as someone who likes to play a lot of video games and has played them a lot. In one of the games I play, you can change your character’s appearance and personality by choosing a different outfit. All it takes is a few taps to change. And one of the things I’ve noticed is that if you change something, you can’t do it again. Even if you make a change you can’t go back and redo it.
I’m like this with video games. I mean, you can change your clothes and appearance in the game itself. But even then you cant change it again. You need to go through the game’s menu, and pick a different outfit.
As a gamer, I see this as a lot like video games. You have to do a lot of things to change your appearance. But if you change how you look, you can’t go back and change it.
Exactly.
Like video games, you can change your appearance with the game’s menus, but you then can’t go back and change it back. This is also true of just about every aspect of your life. When you buy something, you can just go to the store to look, and then change your mind if you think it’s wrong. No one can change their mind about what they’re buying, unless you pay for it.
Your face is the most obvious change you can make to your appearance. But you can change it on a pretty granular level too. You can change your nose, eyebrows, eyes, lips, etc., but the most important thing about it is that it is totally different from your original appearance. Even if you are on vacation you can change your face to look like an ugly duckling.
Liam has done this several times. In the case of this, he had a nose job that gave him a more masculine appearance. It was a good thing because, as he said, it made him look like a duck, which is a very cool character. But he also did this with his eyebrows. He had them surgically removed and replaced with ones that were just a little bit taller.