People are not just people. We are collections of our experiences. There is nothing unique about us in our makeup.

There IS something unique about us in the way we handle and deal with those experiences, though. Those are the things that shape us as people. Everybody can do the right thing or expected thing in reaction to something. That is part of what links us together and makes us a functioning part of society.

It’s the things that are wrong with us, the way that we deal with the things that make us in a bad or unusual way, that make us different from each other. As somebody once said, “It is our faults that make us unique.”

What brought about this post, you ask? You mean besides my normal rambling along?
I was just thinking about how all of my best qualities were inspired by other people. None of my best qualities were inspired by myself. And that led me to think about our makeup as human beings. Humans and plants and animals…we’re all organic. The strong survive, that sort of thing. All of my best qualities were inspired by other people and the need to grow and push above the canopy of mediocrity surrounding me in certain areas.