What is I?
What is I is the question and to answer the question you must understand that I is not who you are on the outside but more or less who you are on the inside. I is what makes up your person, your thoughts, and emotions. Not what you see when you look in the mirror. Today more people spend time thinking about living life to the fullest, and go through life trying to get the most out of it. They don’t realize there is so much more to them then meets the eye.
Hayao Kawai wrote of an old Buddhist story he heard as a child, he wrote of a story of two goblins that ripped off a traveler’s arms and replaced them with a corpse’s. The traveler then went to a monk for advice to see if he was still really living or not. The monk told him that many foolish people believe that their bodies are the one thing living but in reality it is made up of many various things that come together o form the one thing that is yourself. This story showed that I is not who you are as you walk around here on earth. But, more who is inside you allowing you to walk and talk and live on earth.
What is I can be answered. It can be explained simply by stretching your mind and seeing that the things you do and who you are is not what you have done. I is much more than that. I is what makes up your personality, makes you walk a certain way, learn a certain way. I is what makes you feel emotion and react to different situations. People think that it is themselves but really its not. So the answer is simply, I is what makes you who you are, not who you are.
mattj17 replied:
I think that you developed a good understanding of what I meant to you, using the story. We had a lot of the same ideas in our blogs. I agreed with many of the explanations that you used about how I is not what is on the outside but on the inside.
I also agree that I is not easily understood and that you need to form your own thoughts on what you think that I is. I believe that personality and emotions are a huge part of each person as a whole and not their physical appearance or actions. Too often people base their thoughts on this and don’t take the time to see what is on the inside.
You have a few spelling mistakes in your paper. This is no big deal it just means that you should take your time and proofread your work when you are done. Overall I think that your work was well done.
August 30, 2007 at 7:56 pm. Permalink.
taylorferg replied:
Matt
I read your blog too! We did have a lot of the same ideas of what I meant to us. We both based our entries on the idea that I is not whats on the outside but rather whats on the inside. I think it’s really great that you feel that way too. A lot of the guys I know are the opposite of you when it comes to looking at personality and emotions before looks and accomplishments. I think it’s really good that you look deeper into people.
Thank you for reading my entry and leaving me a comment. Also thanks for the advice on my spelling mistakes, next time I’ll be sure to proofread and fix them before I post. I enjoyed reading your blog as well and I can’t wait to see what your next entry is!
September 6, 2007 at 4:13 pm. Permalink.