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[just_displaced]

Ten Things I Worry About:

1. War. Specifically nuclear war, but war in general qualifies, I guess.
2. Hurting someone.
3. My thoughts.
4. What if everything we experience is actually just in our heads and in reality nothing is real.
5. Reality and what defines it. Is it different for different people?
6. What happens after we die.
7. Dying a virgin.
8. Is it really important to wear matching socks? Who decided that? Is that completely arbitrary? Who decides what "matches" anyway?
9. Being stuck in the City forever.
10. Making lists because what if they're not actually the top ten things I worry about and there's something else I want to put on it but the list is already made?


[Cursed with Listmania, of course, and not thrilled about this being shared.]

Comments

[thefavorite]

See? Everyone's real. And if they're not, then it doesn't matter anyway, because it isn't real.

[just_displaced]

[Why does this child make more sense than everyone else.]

Okay, yeah, you're right. Surprisingly. I mean, not that it's surprising that you're right, just that it's surprising that I... kind of believe you. So I guess that's one thing to cross off the list.

[thefavorite]

[ Probably because he is a child. Adults overcomplicate things. ]

That's good.

[ Considering those others... ]

You can probably take the other reality thing with it. About other people?

[just_displaced]

Probably. I guess it doesn't actually matter if reality differs for different people if reality itself doesn't matter. Good, the list is down to eight now. Well, that list. There're a lot of variants of it.

[thefavorite]

You could just make a list of lists. Or try listing something good. Like your favorite candy, or colors, or the things that smell the most terrible.

[just_displaced]

I could do favorite colors. I think it starts with red. Then maybe pink. That'd be a pretty extensive list. I'd have to do it in order of favorite to least favorite, because honestly, I like most colors. What's your favorite?

[thefavorite]

I don't know... green, maybe. Red is good, too, though.

See, I think that's a better thing to list. I mean, I had to make a list too, and it wasn't anything good, but it doesn't mean you can't make more lists that are.

[just_displaced]

I don't know if I got a choice of what to list. It just kind of happened.

What was your list?

[thefavorite]

Yeah, mine did too.

It was a list of things my brothers did to me.

[just_displaced]

Which I'm guessing you probably don't want to talk about because it was bad enough to share them with everyone the first time, right?

[thefavorite]

Not so much. I mean, I don't really mind telling people they're jerks, but I don't really get anything out of it. They're not even here.

[just_displaced]

Well, yeah. It's way more fun to tell people they're jerks to their faces. I mean, talking about them being jerks just ultimately isn't as satisfying.

[thefavorite]

At least if they ever show up, I'll have way more people on my side.

[just_displaced]

That's definitely a significant benefit. You can count me as being one of those people on your side, too.

[thefavorite]

Neat. Thanks.

I'm Dewey, by the way.

[just_displaced]

Cool, nice to meet you, Dewey. I'm Ginsberg.

[thefavorite]

Nice to meet you, too.