I believe in “not taking sides”. The logical opposite to “not taking sides” would be “taking sides”. So, between “not taking sides” and “taking sides”, I have sided with “not taking sides”. I called this the ultimate paradox in my post “No Sides. Only Questions.“:
If human understanding is flawed and I am human, it could mean only one thing: The understanding presented here is also flawed. And of the many paradoxes in life, I have found this to be the ultimate paradox.
Yesterday, I was involved in a conversation where I was talking about “be yourself” over “try and emulate” i.e. whether to follow your own philosophy of life or try and be like someone. By “being yourself”, I cannot defend or prove the point of it over “try and emulate” because the other person is just being himself by trying and emulating, since he believes in it. Or in other words, he is just being himself by doing what he believes in, which is to “try and emulate”.
Having realised how my very own belief holds out against me, I gave up. But then, I realised that there was a catch for the folks who “try and emulate”. Here a series of steps:
- Select one’s top ten favourites from a list if people on would like to “try and emulate”.
- From the list, find out what each person’s take was on the “being yourself” and “try and emulate’ argument.
- Find the majority opinion.
Now if a person subscribes to the “try and emulate” philosophy, he should emulate the result of the third step. If the result of the third step is “try and emulate”, then there is no problem. But what if the result is “be yourself”?
