You're losing your most valued trait. What would you do?
Our sense of self tends to involve a constellation of attributes, from our gender to all manner of personality quirks. And it's sometimes easy to take these characteristics for granted. So imagine you woke up one day and found out the trait you most value, and that you consider most essentially yours-- your compassion, your singing, your writing, your intelligence, your humor, your awareness-- was disappearing due to a degenerative brain disease. What would your reaction be? What would you do?
Posted on Apr 24th, 2009
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Amanda
Well, I definitely think my most valued trait is my open-mindedness, my willingness to learn and change myself when I think I should. I feel like a very small percentage of people share this trait... More »
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I'd be nothing without my ability to write. It's all I've got. With an author being my only realistic career idea, I'd probably become a hermit living on the beaches of California.
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I would cry--no I would bawl if I found out that I was losing my creativity. I think I'd spend an entire day all to myself, with my rough draft notebook(where I write the rough... More »
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Posted on Jul 23rd, 2007
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Apollo
My ability to evolve is my most valued trait, so it’s incredibly hard to imagine life without that; it’s in our very nature to transcend and include, afterall. I would be shattered and hopeless at... More »
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Thinking positively.Life gives you a lot of challenge , difficult situations that is very hard sometimes to cope with .I try to think that my problem i s nothing in copmarison with all the world... More »
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Posted on May 3rd, 2007
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Debby
Look at the possibility of healing the disease by going within for the cure. Choose grace.....write love letters to my entire family and tell them how they have gifted me in this lifetime. Appreciate.
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Posted on May 2nd, 2007
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Rob
Wow. Hell of a question. Considering I would know it's a brain disease, i would make sure my will and wife were up-to-date on my quality of life issues. If there's an empty house, cut... More »
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Laugh first! about the unpredictable improbability that this had happened to me. I would not be able to let go or give in, so I would keep trying to get it back. at some point... More »
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Posted on May 1st, 2007
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Lauren
i'd look for it, send out a search party of perspectives and sensories, and feel out it's new form. you can not destroy matter, and the matters of the soul simply do not diverge into... More »
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Posted on Apr 29th, 2007
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Siona
I would cry, hard, for a while, and then I would laugh. What other response is there?
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