Yesterday I wrote a fairly long post called "Choosing and Belonging"--in which I referenced a video I had seen about dogs and cats choosing their humans.
Afterwards, someone suggested--probably rightly--that that video was likely not real, that it was all AI.
I was embarrassed that I hadn't been savvy enough to detect that, so I deleted the post. Why? Because I don't want to reveal my stupidity in this new world of fakery? Because it always stings to have one's ignorance exposed?
My second reaction was to look at why that video affected me so much. Was it because belonging and being chosen are important to me for reasons I won't go into right now? Was it because one of the best love stories of my life is with a dog?
There are millions of stories floating around. We gravitate to some and are unmoved by others. It's not too big of a stretch to say that our lives are often lived around and shaped by the stories that impact us most.
Maybe the stories we respond to and believe tell us more about ourselves than the stories themselves?
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