Saturday, June 8, 2013

Trading away myself for a different self.

The topic of my recent 48-hour film contest short film was one which might be closer to my heart than I previously assumed. Much of the outwardly obvious comparisons seem pretty easy to spot... the core of the matter, though, was something I think I even overlooked as it was being written all the way up to today.

I have basically been contemplating what aspects of myself I would be willing to trade away if it were somehow able to guarantee getting a wife. Strangely, even though I think of this as one of my strongest features, I was thinking that my intelligence(however much that seems to be... whether actual value exists there or not) would be one of the first things I would willingly trade away. It certainly has a lot of benefits in many life applications but it also seems to be one of my personal features which may be responsible for my currently single status in the first place. Given my personal feeling on the topic of my intelligence I suppose it would seem like a pretty obvious first casualty.

Anyway, I'm glad I can't actually do what I have been considering tonight. The gravity of such an ethical/moral dilemma is definitely more than I can appropriately weigh in on. I am fairly certain I would probably make a pretty severe mistake if I were given the opportunity. Ha.

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