it feels like we aren't really that special, because every choice we've made and everything we've had exposure to, anyone in our situation could have made and witnessed.
in one sense, there is nothing mystical about it.
but ... we did choose those things and have those experiences, and others when offered them did not. and vice versa, they have chosen things we did not.
and so we diverge into our own person, with our own peculiar outlook and memories and skills and desires and way of being
@grace_in_name_only sounds like anxiety, both existential and emotional