I Want To Be Me!
Why do people want to be anything else but themselves?
There was a question in a survey I took part of that showed an absolutely unexpected result which got me to ponder over existential issues for quite some time.
Here’s what the statistics say:
What would you like to be?
Man — 40.07%
Free wind — 30.29%
You — 21.82% (67 votes)
Politician — 6.51%
I don’t want to be — 1.30%
So, turns out only I and 66 other Advisors want to be ourselves, or did I get the question wrong?
Even if we take the meaning of “man” as in “human” and not the gender-related term, it sounds pretty strange to me that 40% of the voters do not consider themselves humans but only would like to be such.
Really, people? Are you NOT humans now?!
Or these are just the votes of the male and female participants who want to affirm or change their sex? Still strange that so many people want to do that.
No, really. What do I get wrong here?
I want to be just me and not being labelled based on my sex or profession (politician!!!).
And what about the “free wind” that was voted by almost 1/3 of the participants?
Why do people want to be anything else but themselves?
I remember a conversation with a friend of mine — we were talking about how most of the people, who are coupled up, perceive themselves as halves. You know — “my better half”, “the two halves of the whole”, “two halves make one”, etc.
I then told him I consider these beliefs questionable because, for me, it looks like this:
I am already whole, I am a 1, not a 1/2, and the other person is whole, meaning that he is also a 1. Together we make 2 (couple), and these 2 can form a new 1 (new unit), but they are not halves, and the new unit is stronger than the 2 separate ones, or at least this is how it should be.
So, if I am not whole, I’ll put the new unit at risk. It will be strong if it’s built on solid foundations, such as where everyone knows clearly who or what they are.
Then he asked me: how do you know that you are a 1 and not a 1/2? What is it to be a 1?
It took me some time to answer, but here’s what I came up with:
1 is actually a 0 that is conscious about itself, and 0 knows it is empty (nothing). If 0 wants to be 1, it can — it just needs to transform the emptiness into wholeness.
In other words:
I know I am nothing, and because I’m nothing, I can be anything I want to.
And I want to be ME!
