I get it guys. I get wanting to 'feel special', to be unique...
...I hate to be the one to break this to you.
Your choice of operating system isn't a very good component of your identity. No shade on using Linux. I use Linux. I just don't go around screeching about it all the time.
I don't make the products I use, the brands I purchase, the books I buy, the car I drive, the investments in my portfolio define who I am. I don't Identify myself using products, because
Consumerism isn't a solid basis for your identity, because consumption implies digestion, integration, disposal; consumption, digestion, integration, disposal; consumption, digestion, integration, disposal; consumption, digestion, integration, disposal; consumption, digestion, integration, disposal; consumption, digestion, integration, disposal; consumption, digestion, integration, disposal; consumption, digestion, integration, disposal; consumption, digestion, integration, disposal; consumption, digestion, integration, disposal; consumption, digestion, integration, disposal; consumption, digestion, integration, disposal; ad infinitum.
How can you maintain a sense of who you are if all you choose to Identify yourself with is ephemeral noise that doesn't even leave an echo when it dies?
You can't build the foundations of a personality on noise.
Without the noise, without the trends, the slop, the 'latest trend', the 'most', the 'biggest', the 'best', the 'most recent', the 'recommended for you'; Take all of that away and what is left? If all that you See is fallow, barren soil, then perhaps it's time to tend to your spiritual garden.
How do I do that?
Find something that matters! Something you care about. Something you want to do, and do it. Don't just think about doing it. Do it. No matter how small, how tiny, how pathetic, how insignificant it may be; no matter how worthless you may feel, no matter how little it will matter, no matter how much you fucking hate yourself because you can't do it you piece of shit you're a fucking loser you're pathetic you can't even do this one thing right maybe you should just kill yourself maybe you should just fucking do the rest of us a favour and fucking end it right now - stop. Don't listen to the hate | noise.
Just take a breath in...
and out. in...
and out. in...
and out.
Now, go and do something you care about. Because it does not matter if it is good or bad, all that matters is that it is || all that matters is that you do it | that you are.
Just be.
