I am therefore I think.

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“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 how I decipher my reality. But, this is not the realization this blog is all about. It is about the idea that my identity can be changed. It would not be ‘me’ who defines ‘my’ identity – but the people around. I believe I am Jeet because of my idea that I am Jeet or possibly because this is only how I would make sense of life. I am just a mass of information acquired from around. My idea of my existence makes it facile to navigate a way forward in the face of persistent assimilation of information. My message is just that the very idea of our individual existence is in fact in the end – an idea only.

Now, I face another question – Who am I if not Jeet? Then I find that the idea of myself can be created by an intelligence which is beyond the idea of “me”. It is a deeper sense which is capable of comprehending reality. In other words, I do not exist in reality because the very idea of ‘me’ is allowed by something “not me”. I find this realization fascinating and at the same time ineffable. I am not the idea of me, but I’m beyond the idea that I exist. All of my realization is possible since the fact I believe that I exist as I do in the world is the result of my mind comprehending it. It is not that “I think therefore I am” but the other way round. “I” am beyond the idea of my existence. I am not Jeet, in the truest sense. It’s just a thought, and my existence is more than a thought. “I am therefore I think”.


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