I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.
I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.