#Like everyone else just feels homogeneous because you feel acutely aware of not fitting in

[casterhex]

might be pedantic and i might be wrong about this but i keep seeing people joking/being confused about the references to “self awareness” in the journal entries that get posted, the discrepancy being if there was an ounce of self awareness on display we wouldn’t be reading them. we can all agree that “self awareness” here doesn’t mean “self reflection” right? i get the sense it’s referring to a particular form of alienation where it feels like you’re aware of something everyone else isn’t because you don’t view them as being able to understand the pain you’re experiencing. or even just the fallacy that suffering means you're more enlightened than everybody else because you feel hyper-aware of your thoughts and the world all the time. see also references to zombies.