Individualism,I have been thinking is not really our individual nature. It’s kind of a social illusion that our culture forces upon us and, we identify ourselves with something which is fundamentally not ourselves, which is alien. We are not what our parents told us.We are not what religions told us. We are not what our teachers told us. We are not what our culture tells us. We are something inside. We are a spiritual “I” presence that we can’t discover if we keep identify ourselves, only with the social self.
. The problem with our mundane social lives is that it’s covered over the “I”…and I believe thats one important reason so many of us suffered from depression…we have buried the real" I" or never have uncovered him/her.
I am not saying that being social is detrimental, however I do believe it is important at one point to see our naked identity…and make friends with it…then with that knowledge return to the outside world…
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It seems that at the moment we are born…we (the “I”) become, bit by bit diluted…first by our parents or the people who have raised us, then by our friends, our countries, by our education, our religious, politic, musical, cinematographic choices, our pets, our lovers, our mate(s) …all those experiences positive or negative have impacted, tinted, colored the person
we are now…and more people or group,or new countries, new lovers will keep brushing in new tints, newer shades to our original canvas…until we are almost unrecognizable?..isnt it searching for the pure, authentic “I” an impossible mission? as I am quite different now than 5 years ago, and very different than 10 years ago… I possess only an embryonic resemblance to the teenager I was … and instead of being the product of one large slab of marble and chiseled by one artist, I am more so, like a mosaic, a stained glass-window… from which the outside view is blocked …allowing only the outside pure white light to penetrate it…suddenly filtered in different vari-colors…
How much can a person absorb from others ? and how much can a person influence others? is it only a chromosomal
gift? what is left of the “I”? 20%proof. 40%proof. 70%proof?
Even the most influential, powerful people, the most charismatic ones, have been influenced…
and if it would be possible to meet eye to eye the “I”?(no pun intended) would we think of “I” a stranger? something alien from us?
or is the "I"100% proof, not plausible…on the human plane…as a great philosopher said thousands years ago only a beast or a God
can live without the society…and this society will keep diluting many more "I"s to come…