The paradox of man becoming an ‘I’ land

Talk about studying languages in school, and most kids would respond wearily with a question, “Why do we have to study so many languages”. 

Is one not enough to communicate? 

Its so confusing, the grammatical usage against the context - singularity, plurality, gender.

Which has resulted in the kids opting for languages which are easier to score higher marks. 

With authors of best-selling fantasy fictions inventing languages for their fictional world - I wonder if the likes of Harry Potter fan-kids  would be interested in learning it, if is included in their curriculum?

When grownups are forced into learning a new language, they too struggle with the same old confusion,

“Mein ghurka hoon … hain … hoon”. 

The tricky part still being the gender and plurality. 

On a serious note, is ‘I’ singular or plural?

You might have noticed that people say “aren’t I” or “if I were”. 

Does that indicate ‘I’ can be plural in a subjunctive mood? 

Plurality of ‘I’

'I am' plural. Perhaps its the duality of ‘I’ that gives wings to its plurality. Gone are the times of joint family system. Its even moved further from a nuclear outlook, towards a micro nuclear entity. 

Its the time of exploring duality, as there is hardly time or patience when its comes to two individuals getting along.

As is said, each man has a feminine side hidden within, and each woman a masculine side. What better opportunity than the present, to explore into thine own heart!

Delusion of duality

An excerpt from Mikhail Naimy’s ‘Book of Miridad’ :

“The Overcomer do I preach -

Man unified and master of himself. Man made a prisoner by the love of woman, and woman made a prisoner by the love of man are equally unfit for Freedom’s precious crown.

But man and woman made as one by Love, inseparable, indistinguishable, are verily entitled to the prize.

No love is Love that subjugates the Lover.

No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood.

No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed more women and more men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.

The Overcomer do I preach - The Phoenix-Man who is too free to be a male, too sublimated to be a female.”

As Osho said about this book, 

"It is a book not to be understood, but experienced."

No man is an island 

Quoting John Donne from Meditation XVII:

“No man is an island,

Entire of itself,

Every man is a piece of the continent,

A part of the main.”

It means that man is a social being, that cannot exist without his fellow beings. No one is self-sufficient and everyone relies on another for their survival.

Food for thought : Where does the argument about the possibility of man becoming an ‘I’ land, stand for every individual?