We are all unique. All of us. As our genetic combinations, our biological metabolism, our experiences, our reactions to those experiences together makes us very unique in our outlook and thinking. And thoughts maketh the man. So we are what we think and since our thoughts do not match with anyone else in the world, we are unique.
But then why are we not unique then? There are many training sessions that we undergo in our life time that helps us blend in a crowd. Sometimes these impulses are so strong and the impressions are so strong, they last a lifetime. Look at the army, look at education, look at religion, and look at law. Don’t they say that we are all equal in the eyes of the law? And we start believing it so strongly that we start doing what everyone does. We try to emulate the success of other people. We try to dress up like the x actor or we start talking like the x superstar without realizing that their style works on them may not work well with me.
Same applies when it comes to our dreams. We all want to be doctors, engineers and successful professionals without realizing whether we are cut out for it or not.
In an effort to form a society and smaller blocks of civilization like the family, workplace, we are losing our individuality. We are thinking like everyone and ending up in making mass blunders. There is no one thinking out of the box the box. As we are too stuck to the perimeter of the box.
We will soon have a universal world, a unisex world and a unipolar world. We are already working towards it. But isn’t it at the cost of our individuality? And is that the way ahead or are we going to wake up and move out of mass production of everything and go back to customizations. Well only time will tell…
Individuality...
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Hey Tilak
Nice thought. Reminds me of Descarte's thought "cogito, ero sum" - "I think, therefore I am". I believe that in our own ways we are all unique. Our thoughts, our views, the way we do things...everything has a touch of inidividuality. It is not possible to be clones unless you go out of your way to impersonate someone else. The law does say that we are equal and so does religion but that's more in terms of our character and social behaviour. What we do in our individual space is not governed by anyone.
True we are all frogs in the well, but that's the need of the hour.
20/05/08 @ 10:29
Hey Tilak:
nice thought exactly as ad person should think, thats why we ad professional are facing so much problem cracking a creative thoght which would fit a set of individuals (TG),
because no 2 individuals are same, for that matter similar, even twins, have their own set of differenciation.
However when you talk about people geeting towards imitating others, is in itself is getting customised. every family has a mother, father & children but no two father are the same or mothers or childrens, every one is guided by there own principles & leaves in its own territory of values & thoughts.
So when people try to look at what others are doing & try to copy it will have its own uniqueness...
Thinking out of box is necessary which ensures that the human life is improved & earth becomes a better place to be.
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