Hello. There is no book of YOU that you can borrow from the library, pick up in a bookshop or download. There are no instructions to find out how it is YOU think.

In a world where everything is being explained to us pretty much all the time, I am not going to add to all that stuff and explain anything!

There is no detailed blueprint that you can search for, how it is YOU action, how it is YOU learn, how it is YOU create. There are no words, pictures, films, youtube stars in the world that can tell you how it is that you relate to every-thing in the world.

Only you can be consciously aware of you. Others may notice of you some kind of behaviour or habit that you have overlooked, but even so, they won’t be able to be aware of You as You can be aware of You. Even if you were cloned, there would appear to be a number of You, but You would not feel exactly as your clones would, even if you were situated in exactly the same conditions. Oh there would be many similar behaviours, physical and psychological but there would also be differences for the response to the world and the things in it, including other people who like You would be subject to organic biological physiological psychological formation in relation to the conditions. If a friend of yours came to see you and you had cloned yourself and your clone was there to greet her at the door alongside the original you, do you think they would treat the original You EXACTLY how they treated you before you spawned your clone? Of course they wouldn’t, your relationship would change from what it was in that instant and be set on a new living trajectory.

What is to stop one clone developing a dark sense of humour, liking marmite and another You prefer slapstick humour and detest marmite? YOU may be someone who shares his sweets with his friends and clones, whereas one clone watches You share and becomes jealous and reacts by keeping his treats to himself. Another clone may notice this and call him out on it in an aggressive way. Another clone may notice the selfish behaviour and have a quiet word with that clone as they notice the aggressive clone’s action not serving any purpose but to shame in a destructive way.

Only you can know how you feel to be you from one day to the next, from one moment to the next. (This does not mean you now say to yourself, whatever I am feeling is right, that is me and I’m not going to apologise for being me, if others don’t like it, they can bloody lump it, nope, this is not about justifying your feelings, it’s about looking at how those feelings are arising and thus questioning that very process). 

I realise that I am the only one who can actually fully totally see how I am doing. In that You and I are the same. We have different parents, born at different times, brought up in different families, perhaps in a rich neighbourhood or on a poor estate, but we are the same regarding the capacity that human beings share – one’s ability to respond to all things of the world – people, persons, systems, authority, social media, news media.

To be continued…

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