So, don’t be frustrated by your thoughts, because they’ re not “you” either. Just because the kernel sends you a heap of worry, fear, anger, or other crap on sys.stdin doesn’t mean you have to send it on to sys.stdout. Until I understood that, I was under the mistaken impression that fear and worry, hurt and anxiety, disappointment and regret were all real things. But they’re not real! They’re just data. Heck, they’re not even data about real things. They’re data about previous conclusions drawn about similar things! Sometimes, they’re even data about erroneous conclusions previously drawn about similar things.
I find this stuff fascinating. The Multiple Self (dirtSimple.org)
