About The Author

As you know I have been trying to write a blog, so I opened my account to look at suggestions given by people (I got some of them on facebook), where I saw a section which said ‘about the author’ and I tried filling it, this is about me trying to fill the ‘about the author’ section.

So I thought “What should I write about”? the answer seemed simple I had to write about ‘I’ the person who I see in the mirror… but that was it , I was not able to write anything about me. If I were to write about some other person I just met once I would have been able to write essays about it, but when it was me I was not able to write anything.

So taking the same premise I thought others would be able to tell better about me then myself .So I decided to look at what others had to say about me I asked about it from friends and family members, the opinions varied a lot it was like they were talking about completely different people, but then this thought came to my mind “do I need others to define myself, am I incapable of defining myself without looking at it from outside is it really true that we scrutinize and try to understand others more than we try to understand and look at our own selves.”

I was asking way more questions then I was answering, what had started with a simple question of writing about myself had sprouted thousands of more questions, it was then I turned to the one that has the answers all the questions ‘GOOGLE Search’, this is what I searched for ‘who am I’. 490,000,000 is the number of results I got some of them included the writings of philosophers, various religious definitions, there is in fact a Jackie Chan movie with the name ‘who am I’,

It seemed like I found the question that gives birth to all philosophy.

The problem of defining ‘I’ or confirming the existence of I is not new. Many a great people have already spent their lives trying to define it. So there were too many definitions. The problem now was which definition I take and which do I leave.

Do I take Descartes definition but this guy had serious issues forget about writing about himself or understanding himself Descartes even doubted his existence and in the end was able to prove that he existed only by stating ‘I think therefore I am’(philosophers are weird!!!!).

Lets look at what god had to say about himself -‘I am what I am’ this was the response given by God when Moses asked his name (writing more than that about myself, now that would be blasphemy).

But then I thought “am I significant enough to be written about, after all I am just but a small piece in the grand scheme of things, another one in billions, after all lord Krishna said in gita ‘this life, our existence is just but as a blink of an eye’.

So the final conclusion stands as-About the author: author is not significant enough to be written about.

P.S: This still is not a blog.