Individuality
You can’t help other people being who they are, despite all promises, despite all dramatic declarations.
You can’t help being yourself, despite all good resolutions, despite all bad experiences.
The thing to remember is that it is wrong to make a person become who he or she is not. But it is far worse to become someone you are not, as a result of other people being who they are. Especially when being that way only hurts you.
You stand for yourself, always and alone. No one else ever will. And remember,
This above all, to thine own self be true.
Even that’s comparatively easy. It’s understanding who you really are that is the challenge.
yes, i could never figure myself out 🙂
Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Fountainhead
@ Ricercer: Join the whole-world-club!
@ ABC: I’ve only read the last and about 70% of ATLAS SHRUGGED.
Well…. though I agree with the point you’re trying to make, I think it’s important to keep striving to become a “better” person (whatever that may mean to an individual), to keep working the resolutions, to keep learning from the bad experiences.
That probably will change you a little (or in some cases a lot) and then that’s who you’ve become. Which, I think, is a good thing.
That all being said, “This above all, to thine own self be true” with you completely there!
@ Melody: Valid point. So the definition of ‘I’ keeps evolving as well, right?
Trying to be someone else is such a waste of the person you are…
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
~Oscar Wilde
teehee.. corny, i know.. but appropriate!
@ Wiseling: Heeheehee….its a good one actually! Profound and funny at the same time!