Bits and Pieces

Ideas come to me in fragments... when will they ever link up? Yet, there are just some thoughts, and hopes, still lingering in my mind. Almost all are bits and pieces of events that have shaped my past, some recent, some not so recent, but all equally significant. Thoughts and actions are peculiar things... they make up the person, and define the angle in which we look at him/her, yet vanish right after a brief stint on Earth, when the person dies. Some famous thinkers (I don't wish to call them "great" or "greater") have their thoughts and philosophies forever embedded in the minds of those still alive. Thats good for them! But more often than not people might always model their thoughts according to those thinkers they believe in. Its nothing wrong, but I believe that each of us have the very same mental capacity of conjuring up equally distinct philosophies of our own.

The way one lives, those bits and pieces of events, makes the ideas one conjures as unique as the guy on the left or the girl on the right. This would potentially destroy any notion of the common identity. No it does not. Going through the essentially the same mundane chores of living makes up the family identity. Having a special group that has had great experiences with each other, and where one feels really comfortable makes up the group identity (& thats EZOAC for me!). Zoom out further we begin to define our identity according to the soils we thread on, and thats national identity. & when we zoom out to the max, the human instinct of survival, pursuit of happiness, and avoidance of pain can simply defined as the human identity.

Bits and pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are unique in their own way, yet form this intricate picture when all put together.