Being “Unique”
There is always an emphasis on being unique- be yourself! Don’t follow what everyone else is doing! I do support this, but what is truly being unique? Having individual thoughts? How can one have individual thoughts if everything they think is somehow predisposed by some other source? I know our experiences are all unique, but the reactions to those experiences must be bias in some way. You are thinking the way your teachers want you to think. You are acting the way your friends and family want you to act. Opinions arise from knowledge, but that knowledge is learned through a certain perspective. How do we become totally unique? By thinking thoughts never thought before? By taking knowledge and putting our own spin on it? What to do. What is right? Is it really that essential to be unique? And that brings us to the big, recurring question: What is the meaning of life?
What do I want from life?
