First surmountable challenge…my laptop isn’t working. It is fixable which is why it’s also surmountable but in the meantime this is being written using a phone. Expect lots of error and a lack of flow, it’s good to get the excuses in early. The question then is whether that is the kind of person I am, someone who’s a waster full of excuses or someone who never let’s an obstacle prevent him reaching his goal. There may be more but these are two ways of looking at this, presupposed narrative will play an enormous part of which one you think I am. What kind of character you think I have will have potentially already been decided before you’ve even finished reading the sentence. What though is it that leads us to seeing events through whichever prism we have been programmed to look through. Are we who we are because of previous events, similar things which we experienced in the past and played out a particular way, our subconscious now presupposes every event similar will play out the same way. Alternatively is how we view this something innate within us, dare I saw, where we born that way. Importantly too, ‘we have been programmed’ already implies an assumption of sorts and it would be worth mentioning how that sentence was toyed with before being settled upon.
John Paul Sartre may not be seen as the father of existentialism but it isn’t too far fetched to refer to him as it’s most famous and important proponent. He believed existence precedes essence, simply put we create our own character through our experiences and our actions, and are not born this way. To put it crudely would be to hurtle into the frame of nature versus nurture. What happened in my life then that led me to feel the need to qualify what I was about to say with an excuse on the off chance that what was to come would in some ways not be to the required standard. Have I failed too often in the past, do I lack confidence or self belief, have I learnt that over explaining everything is necessary, am I in some perverse way just too polite. On the other hand Scorpios don’t try anything unless they know they’re going to succeed, perhaps that was a way of preempting failure. The Chinese Ox just plods through and gets on with it, perhaps the laptop issue was nothing more than something to be plodded over. Really though who knows, ultimately which ever way you lean on this particular issue has most likely already been decided in your mind long before you started reading this.
Observations and Misunderstandings 