Christy's Five Questions for January 2023

My response to Christy's Five Questions for January 2023:
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/christyotwisty/phlog/2023-01-02.txt

Every month I see Christy's Five Questions pass by.  I always enjoy
reading the answers on all the phlogs I follow.

Like many, I guess, I try to answer them mentally.  But I always get
stuck on one or two questions.  This time is no exception but, for
once, I'm going to go ahead and try answer them all.

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   1. What are you grateful for from 2022?

My son born in April.

Moving our little family to a better place at the beginning of the
summer.

And the fact that I had enough courage and money to re-enroll in law
school in September to finish my degree.

   2. Has the internet changed the way you think?

I don't really know if it changed the way I "think" but it definitely
changed the way I see the world, and the way I (want to) express myself
in this world.

With time, it allowed me to widen the "field of possibilities"; that is
to say to understand, if not at least to approach, thanks to the
feelings expressed by others online, a multitude of other ways of
considering life, the universe and the rest.

As far back as I can remember, I have always tried to understand
"others selves", their way of thinking, to know how they see things and
represent themselves.  This is something I was doing before I was
connected to Internet, something so prevalent that it pushed me and
motivated me to obtain a degree in clinical psychology and
psychopathology.

But the Internet has really, considerably enlarged my space of
discovery to the point of being able to immerse myself into ways of
thinking and envisioning existence that I had not even imagined and
that have nourished me in many ways, as well as some that I still find
very difficult to apprehend.

Well; based on what I just wrote, some might say that it actually did
change the way i think, right?

  3. What do you believe is true though you cannot prove it?

"Agent Mulder believes we are not alone."
-- Special Agent Dana Scully, The X-Files, Pilot, Sept. 10, 1993

  4. What have you changed your mind about and why?
     If possible, use an example from 2022.

Ok, this one is tricky for me...

[Hours later. Literally.]

Well, no inspiration, so I drop this one...  I may come back and update
this file if I get a flash in the next few days (but I doubt it).

  5. What would you like to return to?

I would like to go back to my first years of college.  Both when I
started my cycle in psychology at eighteen, as well as, few years
later, in law.  The two times, I had no money, no real possessions
other than a small computer to work with, but every day was an exciting
intellectual discovery, in the good company of many friends I thought I
would keep for life.

It wasn't always easy, but I'm really lucky that I knew, even then,
that I was living memorable moments.  I would like to return to that. 
I don't think I've ever been happier than during those years.