I rember this dude used to work in some mental health profession then too.
You posed a blog-like thread about how to live live fully you have to live in present moment, which is cool since at that time I was in the same ballpark with those ideas, maybe I can even find some of my old account in...
Naruto ended, they rebranded to keep people.
In hindsight, Should've done the name change WHILE naruto was going and far from over.
Narutoverse became Fanverse too.
Now only people who're in all that RP stuff and crickets wander here.
Well this isn't my first account, I was active around the time Naruto ended and some time before. You don't personally know me though, since I never PM'd or socialize on here. So it might be some recognition from threads or replies etc.
Everything you said, but if one can view it as "despite of" instead of "because of".
And then the boundless optimism can exist.
At least, that's one reason to prosper.
I've been thinking about why we expect people to be a certain way.. and whether they have a responsibility to be a particular way.
An obvious and in this case also true answer is no. People don't.
I think it's the expectations(which also have a cause mentioned below) that is the problem, take...
He is too dumb to be dishonest or at least his play is.
It's fucked up or impressive that all these years he is still going strong, I still wonder if he is playing everyone...
I agree with it, it's like when you cover face it becomes very difficult to understand someone. That's just a naive example though.
I figured the same, is that all things are neutral props, and depending on the state of being of one the meaning is defined, even same word in different languages...