By: Ahmed ELNAHAS – Venice, July 8th 2013.
Some of
my friends in Egypt and elsewhere got curious about why I chose Goethe’s quote
as a banner for my Blog “The Oracle”*.
The philosopher reached a conclusion that there is no worse cage than the one
inside which we believe to be totally free. What does that mean? Let me try to
explain.
That cage
could be your apartment in the city centre, your close circle of intimate
friends, or your new pair of Nike walking shoe.. Since we are equal, then we
are alike.. Similar.. Think about a lion, a rat or a cow; you draw one and you
have designed all.. We, mankind, are the same.
Remember
the Stickman? The man we used to draw using five traits, sticks, and a circle? Is that what we are? A stooge with two
legs, a head and a pair of arms?
It
existed, or hopefully shall exist, a moment in which you’ll feel alone.. An
occasion when your best friend, or dear one, would say or do something at which
you’ll find yourself in complete disaccord; and when you’ll check for a
confirmation in the views of other people, you’ll discover to be the only one
seeing it that way. Well, when this moment arrives, try to make the right
choice.. You were not born to be a mirror.
Genetically
we are unique.. Nevertheless we eat the same things, take the same medicines,
make the same sports, wear the same cloths, venerate the same labels and who
wants to be or feel different, ends up wandering and decked out like Christmas
in August, we think the same things, listen to the same music, watch the same
programmes, design in the same manner, buy the same
mattresses, the same furniture …
Tens of
thousands of years ago, we adapted ourselves to the laws of nature in order to
survive.. Today we are adapted to the useless just to coexist.
What have
we become then? A Stickman!
Pass On The Word.
* http://haalitheoracle.blogspot.it/
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