“Who are you?” someone asks.
“A man, husband, father, son, brother. Human,” you might reply.
“Uh-huh. Got it. Anyone else?” he clarifies, for form's sake.
You go on: "Founder, writer, citizen, athlete, creator..."
"Okay, okay! That’s it, right?" the questioner sums up, impatient.
You flare: "Of course not! I'm not just that, but so much more!"
Somehow, the verdict "You're just X, Y, Z" stirs anxiety and anger in you.
But what’s the problem, really?
Your intuition's right, for Life is never just this or that. Clear, concrete, tangible form? Sure, it's needed. Like a channel, it focuses energy for good.
But it’s foolish and dangerous to confuse a snake with its shed skin, a beetle with its shell, or a molehill with the mole. The function that gives birth to form is invisible to the eye, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
The mistake of many? Guarding a tree hollow where no one's lived for ages.
The real you is ambiguity and multiplicity, incompleteness and excess, uncertainty and potential — living tension from which everything arises.
And that's just the start...
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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