IDEAS ARE COOL

“Who am I?”: a question people often offer contemplation to and it is indeed a deep one. One cannot digest cursory explanation of the existence of oneself hence, there are various identities people attach themselves with. The fundamental idea of oneself is started by their ‘name’ which means for me I am Jeet, for you it is your name. But, I find a problem with our names being the only criteria to distinguish each individual from others. It is not because that names are not unique, but our name is just an idea to allow ‘other people’ to comprehend our existence. I am a human whose name is “Jeet”. It is just an idea which my parents passed upon me so that I can have an idea of my unique existence. I am not Jeet, my name is Jeet. It is necessary to make sense of all the happenings around me without being nonplussed about my own existence, hence all the information revolves around the idea of myself – Jeet. I am a boy, 18 years old, quite well in academics, son of my parents etc. It is ho

“Can a boy and a girl be just friends?” It was precisely the question I wanted to answer but the inquiry led me to a fascinating realisation. People say that it is difficult to quantify the various dynamics of relationships we have with people and hence, it is sufficient to distinguish each relationship with tags or I would argue – identities. For example you can be the girl/boyfriend of somebody while you both agree on what the terms ‘boyfriend’ and ‘girlfriend’ mean. Here, the aforementioned identities are accepted by both the parties. This is how various roles relating to each identity are formed for eg. Gender roles, teacher-pupil role, role of a parent and so on. Having established that relationships are not but various identities at work all the time, I further articulate that a person has to shift from various roles depending upon different situations. You are a student in school, son/daughter for your parents, a friend for your peers and a lover for your soulmate. That is how w