What silly thing do you sorta believe in, despite knowing better?

[Stuffy]

@Kobal2

That honor/honesty/doing the right thing matters. I know better, but I can’t help myself. It’s just not cool to cheat your way through life, even though… well, you win a lot more. And you enjoy yourself more. And you get more toys. And more girls. And people like you a lot more. And everybody else is doing it anyway.

It’s very puzzling to me to both know this (i.e. that I can do whatever the hell I want, and there are no consequences whatsoever, beyond the material ones should I be both dishonest AND stupid) but not being able to believe in it. I think a part of me still thinks there’s going to be a big prize at the end for not being a dick, or a scoreboard… something.

Wow! This is how I feel almost all the time.

[delphica]

I do a lot of superstitious things, like throwing spilled salt over my shoulder, not because I believe in the superstition, but because I think there’s a value in participating in cultural rituals.

Then I have some things that I like to believe in in a wistful thinking sort of way. Like the Loch Ness Monster. I know there isn’t really a Loch Ness Monster, but HOW FREAKIN’ COOL would it be if there was? I keep that belief safe within my heart, the way some people feel about Santa Claus. I know it sounds like I’m pretending to believe it, but it’s more than that.