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The mystery of “I”

I was born in plurality. It was never about a well defined “I”, it was never about one single being. In my world “I” was an entire community. It could have been the family, oneself and God, the sum of ones knowledge, the books that at one point he devoured, the wardrobe, the meals, the friends. This entire concept of ones self was never individual. So, I find it inspiring this grammatical question of the self and it’s Three Persons, the first, the second and the third, the singulars and the plurals of the soul. How does this echo in our social encounters? Are we defined as individuals or as a sum of our experience?

How does one person truly relate to another? Do you see the person as a individual system or do you relate that person to the sum of your experiences with it? Do you identify that person as singular or do you understand that person as a community, e.g. his friends, his family, his wife and children, etc. And one might go further, how does your vision about that person mirror in your behavior regarding him?

[If you have answers to the questions above please feel free do drop me a line.]

As a son of a plurality I find it hard to start living life as a singularity. I always defined myself as the sum of something or someone, and I don’t know if that is right or wrong. I don’t know if human beings should be in a plurality or in a singularity. But I am keen to find out. I find this problem, if it’s fair to call it so, fascinating.

internal combustion

June 21, 2011 1:37 am