How Do You Define Yourself?

How do you define yourself? Interestingly enough, my brother was assigned a project in which he was to define himself. Interestingly enough, it just may be the hardest thing to answer when asked. The easiest questions seem to be the most difficult to answer, but why? I mean, seriously.
How do you define yourself?
Who are you?
What do you want?
Why should I care?

I wake up every single day I wake up and know that I am not who I want to be and that I am not where I want to go. I wake up and I know that I am only going through the motions of physical existence and moving forward. I get tired of running on this metaphorical treadmill that leads me nowhere.

And what am I supposed to do in a society that preaches hypocrisy?
They tell you to define yourself and proceed to define you.
You can be whatever you want to be, as long as they approve.
You can do whatever you want to do, as long as they approve.
Who? Society.

Artwork by btomashek

I mean, think about this. When you think of abnormality, what do you think? You think of something that must be bad, irregular, strange, unknown, to be feared, malignant, unnatural. But that isn't always true. Some people have genetic abnormalities that give them advantages over others. Take, for example, somebody born with a genetic condition that gave them increased muscle capacity and inability to maintain body fat (a myostatin-related condition). So, you're looking at somebody with double the muscle and increased muscle strength. Not necessarily a bad thing, even a good thing. Now, let's say this person is a guy with big dreams to go to the Olympics. He's trained hard all his life and just wants to succeed in whatever sport he is in.

But it doesn't happen. People don't want him to play. They don't want him in the Olympics. He has a genetic disorder that gives him an "unfair advantage." They don't want him. They don't want people with "unfair advantages."

Do you see what is wrong?
What, you don't? You don't think that people with "unfair advantages" have the right to excel? You want to level the playing field? Why? Because you don't think you can beat somebody with an "unfair advantage?"

You are to define yourself amongst millions of people...without getting above any person? How? How can that be done? Somebody will always be offended by your existence, jealous of some aspect of it. Envy will exist as long as you want something, and all people want something. Maybe you want somebody's clothing, or their job, or maybe their looks, or maybe their attitude. Maybe you just want to see things they way they do.

They say envy is a bad thing, but I think otherwise. Envy can be bad, but it doesn't have to be. An excess of any good thing can be bad too, after all. A healthy amount of envy is necessary. A healthy amount of selfishness is required for life. A person cannot sell their life and soul and expect to go on living without it. Envy is a feeling, and what people don't like is really the action. Why? Because some people go about things the wrong way. They want something, they see somebody with it and either resolve to steal it from them or keep them from it since they can't have it. That is what should change. Will it? Probably not. That's just the way it works, that's just the way the cookie crumbles.

Some people are motivated by other people's successes, some people are not.
Some people are motivated by their own successes, some people are not.
Some people resolve to trample over anybody and anything that gets in their way.
Some people try too hard not to trample over anything or anyone that gets in their way.
Some people just don't give a fuck.

Need some motivation? Or maybe you're just bored and want something to watch. Check out this YouTube video and watch the movies Accepted, and Idiocracy. Both movies are relatively funny and not too serious, but you can get something out of them, they aren't stupid like some of the shit I've seen. It is what you make it though, right?

Also, check this post out at this LINK, whoever wrote it makes a good point that I think people should read about...because, you know, reading is good for you. Go fucking read something.

Love you <3
(Heh, of course I do, why would you think otherwise?)