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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448815" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>There Is No Such Thing As An Individual</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She looked at me<br>and asked.<br>'What is your answer? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was startled <br>and caught up short.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Simple question.<br> <br>But I did not know<br>what the answer was.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Who am I'? <br>I blurted out<br>vying for time; <br>I gave her my name<br>narrowing it to the millions<br>of Jim Jones in the world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But am I my name? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She said</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What else.? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I am Hedi's Father<br>and Lisa's husband'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but before this response rolled away<br>into silence<br>I knew it wasn't enough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So who else? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I like hockey' I said<br>and knew even this<br>fell short.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How do I single out <br>the Me among millions? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What could I say <br>without out offering<br>fingerprints or DNA? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What would you say? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maybe I should have given her<br>an address.<br>Only I live there.<br>But my address<br>is not my essence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So who <br>in fact<br>is the I-<br>the me, <br>that I see-<br>as individual<br>and precious? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I really didn't<br>at that point<br>have an answer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What about achievements? <br>.<br>How many individuals have<br>my job <br>and my name? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fewer still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This at least narrows it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But then<br>the thought came; <br>I am not an individual.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am the Me that<br>has a family and a history<br>a genealogy; <br>only me<br>has that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not an individual<br>but a person<br>who can be identified<br>in the web of relationships<br>which surround me; <br>have surrounded me; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">which in the end<br>have defined me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not an individual.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am all the people who<br>have influenced me-<br>nurtured me been kind to me or hurtful.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So there is then<br>this myth of the individual<br>which is not so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But if this is not true<br>is it not so that much<br>of society and indeed Democracy itself<br>is premised</div><div style="margin:10px 0">on the creating the conditions<br>for individual expression; <br>individual growth? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is this premise correct<br>and the individual lives; <br>or is it that more real <br>is society and social relationships.? <br>So which is which? <br>But then again, one cannot touch society. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Confusing no?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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and asked.
'What is your answer? '

I was startled 
and caught up short.

Simple question.
 
But I did not know
what the answer was.

'Who am I'? 
I blurted out
vying for time; 
I gave her my name
narrowing it to the millions
of J..."></div>
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