2-5 Self Doubt - What am I?

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Costs 11.60G EGO.

This is the twelfth chapter of ALTER EGO.

It contains a multiple choice question.

Transcript
"I've had time to think, but I'm even more confused."

"There's nothing here for me. Nothing at all."

"Those books back there? I've read all of them."

"But it's hilarious, really, because I was utterly ignorant."

"For example, to whom do those books even belong? I don't know."

"I'm not even sure when I read them."

"These memories I have of having read all those books..."

"Are they fantasies? Delusions I cooked up to hold onto my sanity?"

"If that is true, then what do I have left?"

"The only thing I have... You're the only..."

"Unless... you're just another of my delusions."

"It doesn't matter if you are."

"Your visits here with me are the only times..."

"I feel stable."

"I feel like I can be myself."

"But when it comes down to it, I don't know..."

"I. I... I, I, I..."

"I use this word so unconsciously."

"What does it even mean? What does it refer to?"

"My body? Or, perhaps, my thoughts?"

"If I halved my body, in which half would I reside?"

"If all the cells in my body swapped places..."

"Would my "self" just be an optical illusion?"

"The same goes for thoughts. No, those are even less certain."

"How can I say for certain my thoughts are my own?"

"My thoughts could belong to some other person I dreamed up."

"Am I hallucinating that thoughts of someone from a book I read are mine?"

"If I am not my body or my thoughts, then... my interactions?"

"Am I defined by my relation to the world?"

"If no one is here to perceive me... Do I cease to exist?"

"If that is true..."

"...I can only despair."

"For, within this world, there is only the stone wall that denies me."

"With this world as all I know, I may as well be dead."

"If I don't exist without someone here to perceive me..."

"Where do I go when you are not here?"

"If I do not exist when you are not here with me..."

"Does that mean you... are me? Or am I you?"

"I beg of you..."

"Tell me the answer."

"You're the only one here, the only one who can answer me."

"What am I?" "Oh, my… How much we have discussed."

"Ah, but how badly I wanted to hear someone say it."

"I’m glad I asked you."

"It feels like just talking to someone can resolve the issue."

"Not that I’ve found any answers, but… I do feel better."

"Therefore…"

"I think I will dwell on the mystery of myself for a while longer."

"I have to stand and face these thoughts. Nothing good comes of avoidance."

"Save up some EGO and I will see you soon."