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I wonder ... the person you all were before the app, are they still who you are? Or is that person no more than a memory? A memory and another "past self" that is and is not who you are, anymore.

But, that's fine.

What I am saying is that it is all right to no longer be the person you were. We all change as time goes on. This app has us change within months rather than years, but ultimately, the changes we decide ourselves are for the sake of seeking out happiness. Is that not right?

Our bodies may change and we may no longer allow us to recognize ourselves, but that is only the physical. It's only flesh and blood. Our souls remain much far more worthwhile and valuable.

So rejoice. If you still seek out happiness, you are not yet lost.

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That's pretty rich considering that you don't know what everyone's past lives were like.

You and I have had this conversation. Unless your current life's experiences are erased, it's really not possible to be that other person. We're shaped by the sum total of our experiences, which is pretty basic psychology. We have those experiences, and this life's, and that makes us neither, we're a synthesis of who we were before the app, and who we were in the past.

That said, souls are a different story. That's beyond the scope of science. Maybe we are destined to be like our past self. Maybe not? I don't feel any more superheroic, but I have found myself doing more to intercede on behalf of others.

Also, I agree on the last. Happiness is something you have to find. And it's not being given to you on a silver platter.

I wanted to say that I'm the same person I was before the app and nothing's going to change that.
And if I get memories back I know they're not real so it won't make a difference.

But you gave me something to think about.

It's not a good thing, not changing when new stuff happens.
Or old stuff happens. Or happens again or whatever.
We were all going to be different people than we were last month anyway, that's just how life works.

i don't know. sometimes i like to think that people can still be both the person they were before and the person they were now. so a third option.
what makes you sure it is always about happiness though?

People grow and change all the time. So the person I was before the app is still technically the person I am.

But I think I'm better for everything that's happened.

What brought this up?

nah me and other me are totes twinsies tho she dont talk like me i guess???

I'm still me. I know in my heart I'll always be 'me' no matter how much I start to look like my 'past self'.

But, thank you for your kind words.

Are you okay, Mister Kei?

It’s getting harder and harder to deny that my memory self and the me now are the same person.

fuck off

[ i'm sorry. ]

Are you okay?

[ It's a lot of pretty words, she thinks, but... ]

that person is not me
none of us are those people
they can give us these memories all they want, it doesn't change anything

[ it changes too much actually but good luck making him admit it ]

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