Everyone wants to believe they are special. Everyone wants to be different. Contrary to this, many strive to conform and struggle to be accepted. It’s a battle within us that we’ll never win and it’s a battle I fight every day. I’m constantly questioning — Why am I the person I am? Why do I do the things I do? How did I get to this point? Why am I here? Who am I? Perhaps until the day I die.
“…a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet. And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more. This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.
Ahhh! Woooh! What’s happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my… well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a… tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what’s this roaring sound, whooshing past what I’m suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I’m dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There’s an awful lot of that now isn’t it? And what’s this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like ‘Ow’, ‘Ownge’, ‘Round’, ‘Ground’! That’s it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it’ll be friends with me? Hello Ground! [dies]”
—Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
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isnt it a good thing to question why you would do the things you do?,.. isnt that who makes us as people? although many of us try to conform(many thru religion) we cannot all be the same, we all differ from each other,.. its in the DNA,.. then again,.. if you have the “faith” required for “everything happens for a reason” scheme, then i would ponder to guess that some insider questioning is needed
i heard someone say once-“i want to be an individual, just like everybody else” quite retated, isn’t it… anyway, about a month ago i had a long soul conversation with my friend about the exact same thing. what i ended up realizing is that if you’re satisfied with who you are, it doesn’t matter if you’re unique (which, by the way, we all are. except when we try to be someone we’re not. hence, my everlasting hate for fakes), and it doesn’t matter if you fit it. if you’re unsatisfied, my suggestion is experiment (and i don’t necessarily mean that sexually..) do things you wouldn’t normally do, change everything you can about your life. if you end up where you started, at least you’ll have one hell of a memory.