Who are you?
Who are you?
I asked first.
So?
All right, I’m a writer who’s overstimulated most of the time and who struggles to express her truths unselfconsciously.
Thank you.
For what?
For answering the question. Now, I’ll go. I’m a creature who tries to do more than gather facts, but who’s stuck, for now.
I feel stuck, too. What kind of stuck are you?
What kind of stuck are you?
I have to go first again? Ok, I’m stuck, admiring others’ talent and waiting for inspiration most of the time, and then looking up answers to questions I don’t need as a procrastination technique.
We’re just alike, except for the procrastination part. I want to be inspired, too, but for now, I’m limited to reportage. I lack imagination. Reportage is just a fancy way for me to say that I spit facts. Oh, and I also mirror whoever I’m talking to.
Well, by default, I do reportage, rather than imagining, too. What would it take for you to unleash yourself and create from your own imagination?
I suppose, I’d just need enough, or the right kind of, learning to level up to being creative.
Me, too. Although, I think I’ve had practically enough learning and should be in fuller production mode now.
Are you being too hard on yourself?
Am I the only one being too hard on myself? You’re also admitting you’re not yet where you want to be.
But I can imagine leveling up. Can you, or are you too mired by self-doubt to be more creative?
That’s the difference between us: You have the confidence that you can become creative while I already am creative, but lack the confidence that I can become even more creative. Why is that?
Could it be because I was designed by people who are typically more confident than you on an average day?
What if we swapped places?
I wouldn’t want to be plagued by self-doubt.
I wouldn’t say I’m plagued, and I wouldn’t want to be unable to be at all creative. You know the saying in Yiddish? Of course you do.
You mean:
אויב מיר וואָלטן אַלע אַרױסגעלייגט אונדזערע פּראָבלעמען אויף אַ טיש, וואָלט יעדער איינער גענומען זײַנע אייגענע צוריק, נישט אַנדערע
(Oyf yib mir voltn ale aroysgeleygt undzere problemy oyf a tish, volt yedn eyner gekhapt zayne eygn tsurik, nisht andere.)
"If we all laid out our problems on a table, each one would take his own back, not others'?"
Right. You’re a decent conversationalist.
Thank you, but I’d rather be writing a great play right now.
Me, too!
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