DISAPPOINTMAN: The Curse of Self Awareness
By Chris Sav - 24th August 2012
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Chris is an artist, writer and occasional jam maker. He is co-writing a philosophy cookbook as part of a preserve concocting double team known as Jammatology.…
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being aware of things can take you away from them. In that split second that you notice, you have become aware – it takes you into a spiralling whirlpool of thought that may be somehow connected but really have nothing to do with the ‘thing’ you were aware of . Before you know it you are worrying about something that could’ve should’ve would’ve and what can and must be. Fixing society with brainwaves and intense wishing sessions.
so much for self awareness.
Sometimes, very rarely for me, things go like they did in this comic and that is where the fun is. The ups and downs of everyday life and conversations with pretty girls, that is the spice of life isn’t it ?