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A tag and some ramblings

Posted in Ego, Feelings, Inner Voice, Life, Musings, Opinion, People, reflections by Laksh on March 20, 2008

Spillay of A Pot of Gold has tagged me. This is what she wants me to do.

A. List 5-10 things that you have in common with the human race and/or nature.

B. List 5-10 things that you may have in common with the human race and/or nature.

Honestly reading it for the first time I was not sure there was a difference between the first and the second. I cheated and looked at the things she had listed and had an “Aaha” moment. Though I still am not sure if what I list relates to the question, I will go ahead and make an attempt.

List 5-10 things that you have in common with the human race and/or nature.

1. I have the same physical and anatomical structure as most of human kind. In the sense I have sense organs, I have red blood running inside me, I have 206 bones etc.

2. I eat when I am hungry and sleep when my eyes close off on their own

3. I can think. (There is ample evidence of it :) )

4. I have emotions

5. I cover myself with clothes

List 5-10 things that you may have in common with the human race and/or nature.

1. I cry when I am upset

2. I have common sense

3. I stop to enjoy the rain or to smell a wayside flower

4. I prefer talking to watching TV

5. I love surprises

Doing this tag made me think. Really I mean it. When I was looking for similarities with humankind at a macro level, all I could come up with was differences. Reasons why I was different from this huge mass of humankind. Other than the obvious physical structure, biological similarities and related things I could not really think of myself as one with the world. It shamed me. Is there any wonder that there is so much strife  in this world? I have considered myself peace loving by most accounts yet if I had to struggle so hard to find things in common that made me like everyone else it either points to a huge ego problem or a lack of understanding of what the question really is.

Thanks spillay for tagging me. I have food for thought for the rest of the day at least.

I’d definitely like to tag all my readers. Seriously. I would love to see how each person puts a different spin on the same question(s). Let me know if you do take this up.

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  1. Deepa Palat said, on March 20, 2008 at 9:33 am

    Yippee… I am the first to comment! On top of it that too Laksh Blog.

    May be this is one of the thing I “may have” in common with the human race who belong to this world of blogging. To find joy when they find to be the first to comment. But definitely it gives a great feed to my mentation to seriously think about it, I’d also make an attempt Laksh.

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  2. A tag! « Random Ruminations said, on March 20, 2008 at 11:53 am

    [...] really know if this is what the tag requires. I just went by what I thought looking at Laksh’s response…I cheated [...]

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  3. spillay said, on March 20, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    Hi Laksh. Thanks for playing.

    I too took a while understanding the 2 sections , and “commanality” was a new word to me,… which doesn’t appear in any modern dictionary. But, after reading my ‘tag-er’s’ and their tag-er’s responses, I interpretted the first section to mean “what natural laws do the human race/nature operate on”, and thus answered accordingly……

    I love your observation. You may find that what you have pen-ed may not wary from the thoughts of many others…….

    Spillay
    http://spillay.wordpress.com

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