passwords and people are not too different. many of both are vastly insecure, contain special characters, and are easily forgotten.

it is probably when "lack of confidence" breeds with "unfulfilled dreams" that — less than nine months later — insecurity is born; side effects include:

1. having to raise your voice more than is strictly necessary to get your point across,
2. mistaking loudness for truth,
3. a periodic desire to suppress and/or invalidate others' points of view,
4. lack of patience,
5. wanting to live your life vicariously through those others most unlike you, instead of working for and on yourself,
6. not remembering to learn from your mistakes,
7. confusing being pushy with care,
8. not taking "no" for an answer and then being weirded out by the lack of diversity of opinions,
9. having to lie constantly to set standards,
10. being associated with people who value said standards and accept you not for your true self but your projected one, then spending time complaining about having to put on a show and feeling drained.

i mean, it's a match made in heaven, and unlike passwords, there is no easy mechanism to recover forgotten people.

i wish there was a webpage maybe, wherein you could put your DNA username, and it reminded you of how you were really like before everyone told you who you should become.