Everyday Canvas

Feeling Like Me: Changeable

Prompt: I knew who I was when I got up this morning but I must have changed several times since then. Do you ever feel like this?

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I feel like that every day. I usually wake up groggy. Then I rush around taking care of what needs to be taken care of. Then finally I sit down at the computer with a sigh of relief. Although this is more like a routine, I feel differently at each turn throughout the day.

In other words, what I do and what comes to me from the outside as stimulus receives a response from me, and each response is not a programmed one as it is designed for the event at hand and how I feel about it at that very moment. Mostly, my responses have to do with other occurrences’ and people’s input; therefore, I am a social being. So, since my responses are so changeable, it wouldn’t feel like they are coming from the same robot-person, right?

Even if a robot were made and dressed to be like real humans, it wouldn’t be difficult to tell that the robot is not a human. Robots can exhibit intelligent motions; they can show complex processes and they can be repaired, but they cannot feel and think like the humans. A robot’s make-up is basically metal and electrical. A human is an organic individual and an ever-changing entity, but a robot would always do the same things it is programmed to do.

Maybe contrasting a human being to a robot wasn’t the exact answer to this prompt, but I picked the robot example to show the changeability in a person. I think we humans have so many sides to us with sensitive make-ups and we feel empathy, pity, and other emotions; we also do record and feel the constant change in ourselves, and that may as well translate to feeling like a different person from hour to hour.