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I might be missing something obvious but what do you mean by “awake”?
by cyrillite 2y ago
I might be missing something obvious but what do you mean by “awake”?
- _lvbh 2y agoPossibly a reference to: Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466814
- appplication 2y agoI cannot speak to the above comments intent, but felt their words deeply. I assume they meant living with self-awareness. Consciousness of one’s own place in the world contextual beyond oneself. Becoming suddenly and irrevocably aware of one’s own inevitable mortality, rather than continued enjoyment of adolescent bliss. Evolving beyond liminal, secondhand awareness of suffering and injustice to an instant and innate understanding of the brutality and brevity of life itself.
- m463 2y agoreality came knocking.