We like being the independent “I”. But maybe we’re nothing “I”. Maybe we’re something “all borrowed”. Everything we do, everything we say, everything we feel is a projection of everything we’ve seen. From the day we are born till the day we die our brain captures, processes, projects. Captures, processes, projects. Captures, processed, projects. Even if we form new ideas, we do it from pre-existing ideas that belonged to someone else and those ideas too belonged to someone else. Everything we are we owe it to everyone else. Which is why I think it’s unreasonable of anyone to say that they are “self-made”. Which is also why I cannot say that I wrote this article. Because it’s not only mine to claim. It belongs to everyone I have ever interacted with. It belongs to them because if I had not interacted with them I would not have captured all these thoughts and ideas and would not have processed and projected them.
What I’m trying to say is, whatever I am right now, I am because of everyone in my life. My mommy, my sister, my friends, my friend’s parents, my teachers, my acquaintances, the random people who gave me passing remarks, people who dislike me EVERYONE. Thank you. Really.
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