There are many cars on the road today with a vanity license plate of their own choosing. What would you put on yours?
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Month: July 2023
How Do You Strengthen A Connection With Someone?
If there is someone you would like to bond with, how do you make that happen? What are the hallmarks of a deep and powerful connection?
Human beings are social creatures. As individuals, we crave connection with other humans, or even with other species.
As part of our social lives, we create and maintain relationships with dozens, or even hundreds of people. That might include, but is not limited to: family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and pets.
Creating a connection is pretty easy. At a social function, you might strike up a conversation, share a laugh or two, and exchange names.
Strengthening that relationship, however, is a different matter. All relationships need work in order to thrive. The type of work might depend on the person you are dealing with, and the nature of the existing relationship. Getting to know someone you met at a party, for example, will be quite different from the way you build a bond with a sibling.
However, a connection is a connection. Can you think of some ways you can feel closer to someone that you just met, or someone you have fallen out of touch with?
One way to think about it might be to consider what someone else might do to make you feel a close connection. Once you can think of something, doing that thing for others may help. That might be anything form a random text message, to inviting someone over for a homemade meal. Or, perhaps, asking someone to a movie or a play, or playing a board or card game with a group of people.
Each relationship is different, but there may be some commonalities. Can you think of ways to strengthen a connection with someone?
Related questions: What makes a friendship? How do you make friends as an adult? What is your relationship with your pet? How could you show your appreciation for others more?
Ice Cream Or Gelato?
Gelato is the Italian word for ice cream, so this may not seem like much of a choice. However, gelato tends to be more dense, while ice cream is airier and lighter. Do you have a preference?
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What Other Name Would You Choose For Yourself?
If you had the ability to choose a name for yourself, what would you choose? The one you have, or something different? How would you pick one?
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Is Future You Or Past You A Different Person?
You know more than your past self knew. Your future self will have more experiences than your current self. Is that enough to make them different people?
Occasionally, it can be helpful to consider your future self a different person from your present self.
“That’s not my problem,” you might think to yourself. “That’s my future self’s problem.”
Similarly, if there is one person you can be sure that you are smarter than, it is you from the past. You have all the knowledge and experience that that person had, plus whatever you have learned or experienced since then.
But is that enough to define a different person?
Obviously, your past self, present self, and future self have some commonalities. The decisions that your past self made led to the current you, and what you do now will set the stage for who you will become.
In addition, you all share the same DNA, have the same parents, went to the same high school, and so on. You share a temporal existence.
However, your body, and everything around you, is constantly in flux. Each breath you take is slightly different in composition, the food you eat from meal to meal varies, your microbiome is always changing, and so on.
As the saying goes, you can never step in the same river twice — all the water changes from moment to moment, as it rushes downstream and is replaced with the water coming after.
Is it the same with your body? As cells live, divide, and die, to be replaced by new cells, are you the same when most, or all, of your cells are replaced?
When you think about the person you used to be, or the person you will become, do you consider that a different person? Or are they all just you, with some minor tweaks and changes?
Related questions: What advice would you give your past self? Past, present, or future? How much does your past determine your future? What do we owe the future? How do you plan for the future?