Wednesday, May 16, 2007

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How is something special anymore if you have already given it out a bunch? How can one share an experience with you and call it special when that experience has already been share with many others?

I don't understand. What is "special" supposed to mean anyway?

Don't tell me it's special because it's sharing it with me. I know I'm special, so please tell me something I don't already know.

I think it's simple economics, really. Increased supply, decreased demand. The more of it you give out, the less special it gets.

Ok, let's test the theory.
Let's take music, for instance. Playing the same piece of music with different people certainly doesn't make that piece of music not special. Some might even go to the lengths of saying each time you play it with different musicians is special. But if each time is special, then what is special?

If everyone is special, doesn't it also make everyone the same? No, just because it's different than others doesn't mean it's special. Special means to rise above all, its being different than others makes it better than the rest.

So if I'm special, then why do I deserve only the same experience that everyone else had?

Isn't this how the world work? My conception of how things work is starting to blur, and I'm starting to get confused.

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