Uniquely You

 

So, you think you're special, do you?

Not your fault. After all we've been assured

all of us that we are distinguished by our

uniqueness as human beings, that no one is

exactly like us. Well, you might have one of

those odd similarities in a Doppelganger but

that would be someone whose physiognomy

resembles yours. Your mind is all your very own

and it's special, reflecting how only you arrive

at conclusions, how you feel about issues, what

you value and hold dear, and your aspirations for

your life, your future. You uniquely hold dear 

others who have meaning in your life. These 

things are manifest without question. Turns out

my friend, it's all a fond conceit, an illusion not

to be tolerated a moment longer. You are in fact

not who you are but what you are. In the sense of

what group you are a part of. Never been a joiner?

No matter. Now you're white or someone of colour.

Which makes you either authentic or a colonial.

Now you're a person attached to an ethnic group.

Now you're a conservative, a liberal, left-wing

progressive, woke or an anarchist. You might be

identified as LGBTQ2 but not yourself. You are 

what you are and it isn't what you felt you are.