Why wish to be someone else?

If you're not satisfied with who you are what makes you think it'll change if you opt to be someone else?

 

By Stanley Collymore

 

What do I care about love and why logically should I?

For why would I want to willingly subvert my most

intimate thoughts and emotions to the personal

scrutiny or whim of someone else? I’m an

individual, and a thinking one, for God’s

sake! Not some human android

inescapably programmed into

unthinkingly reacting in ways

completely contrary to my

best interests or else forced to

behave in the prescribed manner

that others who I either don’t know,

will in all probability never meet;

whose opinions I don’t share and

consequently mean nothing to

me arrogantly determine are

appropriate life strategies

that unquestioningly I

should adopt?

 

For to allow this pervasive brainwashing to subvert and

even consciously take over the entire running of my life

would not only be contrary to the individuality I’ve

assiduously cultivated and fostered throughout it

but would also, I feel, unequivocally negate

everything that is human in me. So please

let me be for I’m not you nor do I

aspire to being anyone else but

me; and all I ask is to be left

alone to make my own

choices in life and,

you’ve guessed it,

to likewise be

unmistakably

me!

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

26 September 2013.