The Amara Effect - The Advantage of Disadvantages

In this short fiction story, we follow a few of the potentially infinite little differences that occur in a woman's life and explore how tiny unquestioning changes can change everything.

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[sydneyloo]

I like how in your videos, you don't spend time explaining things, you just end it and let the viewer sit with their own thoughts. Amazing

[vwrjeep]

On December 27, 1967, Amarah was born and spent her entire adult life looking for life’s meaning in countless YouTube videos.

[nicolaspinson]

"Each of these lives is the right one, every path is the right path, everything could have been anything else, and it would have just as much meaning."

[meehaw]

The butterfly effect is one of the most fascinating and terryfing things at the same time

[metamorphosis_]

Your biggest weapon is self-awareness and that includes understanding every constituent of your personality. Strengths and weaknesses. Especially weaknesses. Especially if you are young and your personality is still crude.

[tuddgrimley]

I was brought up being told that I was exceptionally smart, "smarter than everyone else." I had no trouble grasping math, spelling, etc., and at some point around 4th grade, I began shirking my homework because I started to realize I could pass my classes by getting good test scores, often without studying, just making logical guesses at the questions. I was developing an intellectual superiority complex. At first the homework was easy but boring, but as time went on, as I grew increasingly disinterested in the subject matter, it came to the point where I was failing my classes to an extent that no amount of test-taking skills could solve, and I was so far behind that half the time I couldn't figure out the homework even if I mustered up the motivation to do it. Algebra and Trigonometry elude me to this day.

Compiling that with a pot-smoking habit since I was 15, I'm 30 now, and I'm the dumbest person I know. I thought myself so smart I didn't have to try, and in that complacency I grew stupid. A Mark Twain quote comes to mind, "The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." It takes an absurdly long time to compose my thoughts, as I'm constantly adrift in foggy-headedness. It took about two hours to put this comment together. I'm a slow thinker. I went to college for one year and failed almost all my classes. I've been unemployed for the last 16 months. I have no skills and I doubt my ability to work. I'm in poor health. I have several addictions which seem hopeless to overcome. I'm perpetually miserable. I just want to find love but I'm emotionally stunted, flat broke and patently undateable. My only saving grace is that I've managed so far to avoid siding with a political party, although that's slightly more of a moral choice than an intelligent one. Sorry for the rambling, long-winded, relatively irrelevant comment. Its purpose is to demonstrate a counterpoint to the story of the Amara who succeeds despite having learning disabilities, by presenting my failure in light of apparent advantages.

A funny thing I noticed recently: spelling every word correctly never meant I was smart as much as it meant that I'm anal retentive. Well, if anyone reads this, cheers. I hope the timeline of your universe turns out all right in the end.

[endlesssoul]

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” - Oscar Wilde ✌🏽

[Sameoldfitup]

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.

[illneas]

the obstacles to art become part of art, and as always awesome video

[Dacademeca]

*"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."*
- Marcus Aurelius

[giannecarlob]

Somewhere in another universe, someone is writing the life you lived, are living, have yet to live, or will never live.

[fefe_numbers]

This made me motivated and also very afraid to get up from bed, I feel powerful and powerless at the same time

[FutureMindset]

The important thing to realize is that we tend to wish that things were different and that we were dealt a better hand in life, but in reality, it's up to us to make life work and overcome it.

[TakeBackYourMind]

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react that really matters."

[Torgo]

"The stone cannot know why the chisel cleaves it; the iron cannot know why the fire scorches it. When thy life is cleft and scorched, when death and despair leap at thee, beat not thy breast and curse thy evil fate, but thank The Builder for the trials that shape thee." - The Hammer Book of Tenets

[superspaceturtle]

I have adhd, and this made me cry. as a kid I was always the 'hinderance of peoples mental health' or annoying. Now I am charismatic, and despite my lack of close friends, that is simply limited by the liking I take to others.

[ReynaSingh]

Too much comfort leads to complacency; the curse of this modern age

[tennesseejohnson]

"In some other life, we are standing side by side, and laughing that, in some other life, we are apart."

[hammerfall]

As a guy who was born prematurely, who now finally studies physics after detours in miserable 45h week jobs, I can highly relate to this beautiful story, and I feel a deep sense of gratitude for my privilege and a big importance not to waste it. I'm going back to study right away after finishing this comment xD

[hydroxyT]

“the difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that the ordinary man sees everything that happens to him as either a blessing or a curse., while the warrior takes everything as a challenge “ - don juan matus