What is Water?

One of my biggest fears in life is being unoriginal. I live under the constant awareness that probably every thought I have ever had, someone else has already had. It could have been yesterday or two years ago or a thousand years ago. It doesn't matter when, it just matters that my every thought or witty quip or action has probably already been done and that other person probably did it better, or had a better sense of comedic timing. David Foster Wallace hit this fear right on the nose in his speech and made my fear even more real and likely. I do not want to go through life live millions of other people are going through life at the same time all around the world. We are not all unique in our thinking and even if the thoughts themselves differ, the way we think or our "Default Setting" is practically the same. And that is what I want to fight against. I know that is a problem, one that I want to avoid at all costs. I want to be able to think for myself, use what I have been given to live a life that no one else has ever lived before. The key to this is all in the way we think and how we want to see the world. I want to see the world in a new light. I don't know everything, I never will, and I want to accept that and turn off my automatic negative reaction to most things. I want to be an original.