the "i"
i am not what i am and am what i am not. i am my own nothingness.
-- jean-paul sartre
i am a thinking thing. i think therefore i am.
-- rene descartes
i am the mean between everything and nothing.
-- blaise pascal
i am what i repeatedly do. -- aristotle
AN EYE FOR AN "i"
the "i"; the ninth letter of the modern English alphabet.
it is a one-letter word, contested in terms of its meaning.
it could be the "me"; that which explicates my identity.
but what is the "me"?
how can the "me" be reduced to an i?
or the "i" be reduced to a "me"?
is "i = me" logically true?
can the identity be contained in a one-letter word such as "i"?
or can the "i" contain the identity?
can "me" be the "i"?
can "i" be the "me"?
the "i"; grammatically spelled with a capital letter such as "I",
hereafter used with a small letter "i",
to explain the "me" -
a "me" who is not only a subject who looks at objects
but an object as being looked by other subjects.
diory-ness
i am: a philosophy major at the University of the Philippines
i am: a person who, just like everyone, gets old as time goes by
i am: excited, yet scared of what the future may bring
i am: discontented with life and the mere sense of living
i am: discontented but happy
i am: ambitious. over ambitious.
i am: walking in a path, with a destination in mind, without knowing where to go
i am: more weird than i think i am
i am: sane yet insane
i am: simply who i am
i am: me, and
i: do not know "me"
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