Today
I took a journey, back to my past,
back
to my roots, wondering if I am
what
I have become, or what
I
was born to be.
Is
what I was "born to be"
determined
by my parents?
My
Grandparents?
How
far back do we go in this
game
of "genetic roulette"?
Do
I go back to find if I am
decendant
of King or Slave?
And
whichever, does it make ME
better
or worse than I have become
by
living in this world?
Who
determined that I be born
in
a family rich or poor?
Into
which Country I was born?
Have
I lived before, in another time,
and
for reasons I can't remember,
chose
to be born when and to whom
I
was born ?
Or
am I an accident of conception,
that
"just happened" to the people
who
were my parents?
Is
it only by chance I am pretty or
plain?
Only by chance that I am
intelligent,
or not intelligent?
How
much of what I am is heredity?
From
my roots? And how much
is
from the world in which I live?
How
much is from what I want to be?
And
how much what YOU expect me to be?
Should
I choose who to love
from
my geographical area?
From
my economic level?
Educational
level?
And
if I do, is that a guarantee he
will
be what I expect him to be?
Or
me, what he expects Me
to
be?
I
found no tried and true answers
to
my questions.
Only
more questions.
But
I know I am ME.
What
the combination of "roots",
geographical
location, and my
world
I live in, has made me.
I
am what I have worked very hard
to
become.
I
am no better than you,
nor
are you better than me.
We
are, what to the best of our
ability,
we have worked to become.
Different
yes, but not better.
And
I am as proud of me,
as
I pray you are of yourself.
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