voice;

[welcome]

[This is a new voice. A smooth voice, canyon-deep and deliberate in its enunciation. Occasionally, the speaker breaks from his practiced tone, but, for the most part -- this sounds like a professional.]

Hello, everyone -- however many people and non-humanoid entities that word may entail. I won't take up too much of your time tonight, but I'm sure you've all noticed it by now. The stray feelings, arriving out of nowhere, and with no apparent courier. The images, too.

Oh, the things I've already seen so far. The things I may never stop seeing. The things now imprinted, permanently, behind my eyelids.

[He sighs, but he doesn't sound aggrieved. It's a soft, dreamy exhale, a gentle 'aah' that's slightly incongruous with the low, dark octaves of his voice.]

I just wanted to say, to whomever may be behind this: you're doing a great job. Simply fantastic. We had an emotional entrepreneur in my little hometown, and I thought I was impressed by their work, but this is a cut above! Full-featured memories, delivered right to us, and without any long and frustrating sign-up process.

It's a great service, and you're performing it so efficiently. Why, if this keeps up, I may never have a feeling or thought of my own again. My sense of self might become completely sublimated to a foreign set of memories and experiences. I would have no identity-based responsibilities whatsoever.

Dream vacation, right?

So keep up the good work, whoever you are. Five stars.

Comments

[vindicating]

Why that concept specifically?

[welcome]

Isn't it obvious? It's so much work to be yourself. Day after day after day. I'm getting tired just thinking about it.

[vindicating]

Honestly, I'm not even sure how something like that can be considered so much work.

[welcome]

Identity formation is one of the mind's most laborious processes, and it never stops. Rarely solidifies. For instance--can you say, with certainty, who you are right now?

[vindicating]

Yeah, of course I can.

[welcome]

[He leans forward, his voice low, excited.]

I'm all ears.

[vindicating]

For what? How I know for sure?

[welcome]

You can start there, certainly.

[vindicating]

Based my memories and experiences in my world.

[welcome]

Memory is a tricky thing. Experience, too. Easily overwritten; easily altered.

[The city council does it all the time.]

But you still haven't approached the question at hand.

[vindicating]

That doesn't mean it was though.

Besides that was my answer to the question.

[welcome]

My friend, I'm not sure we've communicated clearly. I'm looking for adjectives here, preferably nestled within a complete sentence. Things about purpose. Self. And so on.