November 6th, 2008
The most generic question of all – Who are you?
From the second we are born, we learn of our surroundings. We become influenced by everything we sense. Our sponge-like mind takes everything in to find out one thing: what is going on.
As we grow older, we learn to adapt and work around our surroundings. Because what we know of is just small apples, what we do – we do not care. We find things that give us entertainment, our work-around for being bored. Our 13 year-old philosophy comes in. Everything is unimportant, there is lots of time to kill.
Then as responsibilities start coming in, we start to realize that we’re made for more. But we’re still talking small apples, nothing big enough that’s worth our time. To start doing something, we need to be pushed. To start a conversation, to try and go with something, we need to be pushed. Because nothing is big enough, nothing is worth our time. We say “eh” to everything we come across. But when we realize something, then we feel like sharing, so we start to babble non stop. Now, was that really that big of an apple? No, and even at that time we would agree. But we made the step to say it anyway.
Now we’re at the stage at which many did not make it to. Many got lost in killing time, and many made a life in babbling about what they know. At this stage, we realize just what the world is – undefined.
Everything we absorbed as children, everything we thought we knew, we now see it all as a theory. Something we were taught. Most of it makes sense, but there is all this “other” now. Life and our surroundings change just who we are, we realize. We start to look at who we are. We see the resemblances in ourselves, of those who were around us.
If from the day we were born we have been under the influence of others, just who are we, ourselves?
We’re.. no one. Our choices and surroundings define us. We are who we are today.
Thrown as a frisbee out into the world, without a real identification. Given this grown ”self” so that we could make choices. Nothing is defined, because no one knows for sure – everything is a theory. Here to live a life, here to make our choices.
We are the big apple. 
November 11th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Thanks! Nice post.