This is going to be petty, this is going to be a little over-reactive. Hell, I might as well go the full however-many yards, and say this is just an example of my anal-retentiveness. Ned bless Freud and his whackiness.
But back to the topic at hand.
Imagine a terrible personal profile. Female, uses that weird font, compensates for bad spelling mistakes by adding extra "y"s.
Theyy call hur : Sarahh
Luks Thruu: Green Eyyes
...And so on, until...
She is: 100% random!
Bam. You might as well have been Miss Lapin trying to tell me you make something a percentage by multiplying by 100 (I have a problem with percentages at the moment, huh?).
You are not random.
Not the fictional girl I made up, not that "crazy gurl" (another pet peeve), not you.
Are you consistently variable? Are you deduced through Brownian Motion? Is there only one machine in the world powerful enough to run intense algorithms that can just about create a string of you, if you're not too fussy about the source of your random figures?
I'm being pedantic. I know. But let's look at it with a little more context. Let's say you were random, in a more conventional sense. That'd make you a completely different person every second. There'd be no coherency, no context, no connection. You'd be, as a person, nothing.
The person we are is not about what we are, it's the growth. It's why we're endeared to the hero who starts as the runt, and grows. That's character development. "A journey of a Thousand Miles...." and all that.
The things that make you you is an incredibly large (or small if you're particularly dull) set of responses. Let's get that cliche out of the way; that's what makes you, you. There is, granted, levels of variability in people's reactions, but nonetheless, you're programmed.Or rather, programming. Everyone grows, that's something you should remember. To an extent, our growth as a person might possibly may be concieved as a random variable, but the point remains.
You're not random. And that's fantastic.
(I'd just like to add as a side note, two things.
1. I don't want to hear anything about how calling people "Programmed" takes away the magic and spirituality of the human soul, and whatnot. Anyone who can't see that as beauty is, in my opinion, close-minded. They're usually the same kind of people who thinks maths is ugly, and can't see that high art forms such as music are merely beautiful applications of maths. God my boner for numbers isn't even funny.
2., does anyone ever feel that there needs to be a form of 3d writing? From the line that ended ".... you're programmed", I wanted to write three different paragraphs. Although, 2d writing could work just as well, it'd just be a bit cluttered. Damn linear medium.
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You know that Niall's bebo says 100% random right?
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