Who and Why

Who are you? Who am I? What am I doing and why? Why do any of us do what we do?

Hate to jolt a Friday with a serious ponder, but there it is. How did we come to be who we are? Why did we choose to be a certain ‘way?’ Or did we even choose?

It is a truth that we are all unique. At least I prefer to think so. Although we seem similar and have DNA nearly identical, we are different people. Then there is the life journey. Each person imbued with the rewards or scars of experiences survived; day in and day out; hopes up and failures crashing down. We learn and grow by inches. In time we take on behaviors, routines, beliefs, styles and fads. We become me, you, us. We become so different from one another.

The rest of the time we coexist or at least try to. We tolerate, accept or ignore the differences. Unless we feel ire, hurt or revenge; then we learn to hate and separate, aggregate and discriminate. If it is worth the trouble, we even create dissension to control the space.

Political campaigns are like that; but so too is life. Daily life is forever; campaigns are only until election day.

Shifting by choice from one personality to another, or one cult to yet another, we stumble through time to become what we do not recognize.

Then, one day, we ask, “Is that all there is?”

October 2, 2020