"Things have been feeling different lately."
"I'm liking the new you, so don't change."
Innocent words, variations of which we overhear every day. Simple phrases and requests we may quickly let pass. And we experience a comfortable feeling if we aren't paying close attention to the comments that seem to pertain to us. It's the feeling of something overtaking and overlapping something else; it's the feeling of realities clashing against each other like the shifting colors of an anole. Humans are continually usurping each other in these small ways and it's important to be cautious of the language with which we are presented.
An interesting idea would be the concoction of an opinion so subtle that it moves from person to person until all people believe it. What would that say or mean in general and of the person who concocted the opinion? Does it ever stop at just that person?
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