The dictionary kept fluttering, page after page surrendering its words to the hacker’s search, but failed to find a match with my splintered self – numbers and characters slipped between alphabets.
“Don’t make yourself too predictable, Kiara, not because the world is watching, but because the world is always searching for a clean definition, a convenient label, a password simple enough to crack.”
The viral clips, the googlies, the praise, the outrage belong to people thumbing through their private dictionaries, looking for the word that would contain me – Hero, Villain, Genius, Fraud, and failing.
Softly, almost imperceptibly, the second skin settled into place, after I snapped out of myself, and then the next one, and it was not a disguise or a safeguard,
Mutability broke the fraudsters’ tools before the fraud could begin.
Kiara saw them slowly retreat, and reaffirmed her wholeness – she had redefined integrity.
aiyyee!
the sole defense is to become invisible to the adversary (who can only recognize a pattern when they repeat)… and, surely the most ancient of philosophies have been telling us that… wait! don’t want to spell out! (things are watching)… but the hint: if we become but moving fingers…
sssh (mums the word)
lol always fun to write at your Sixes
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You are right. Mums the word 😃
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Oh, this is so cool on so many levels. As a writer, lover of psychology and an IT student. I enjoyed this six a lot! Brilliant.
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Being appreciated by your generation is a huge plus for me 😃 Thank you!
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Oh.
Maybe it is a compliment but I did not even think you were that much older than me.
Hmm.
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🤣🤣
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Oh, I did enjoy that. That was a great Six, Reena.
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Thank you so much, Chris!
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Good observation: “Mutability broke the fraudsters’ tools before the fraud could begin.”
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Thank you so much, Frank!
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The internal struggle and search for identity and wholeness – how often in a lifetime do we walk down that road? It’s a dream to wish everyone’s self -searching ended with integrity at its core.
Good Six, Reena!
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We are trained to be good children, spouses, professionals, because we live in a society. We have to learn how to live with ourselves on our own.
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What a great Six, Reena! 👍 She really has redefined the integrity. Those who try to break into our accounts try every possible combination of words as passwords.
Have you seen my response to the challenge yet? I hope you like it. ☺️
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Loved it.
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Thanks so much! ☺️
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