only you

I am currently re-reading Ayn Rand's Anthem for the first time in twenty years. The book awakens a youthful yearning in me. It reminds me of how it felt to be young, and idealistic, and so sure that you knew so much more than the jaded adults around you. Not to say that I don't agree with its basic premise, that ego is the essence of intelligence, joy, invention, that we must acknowledge and celebrate our differences if we are to excel as a species and reach any form of happiness on earth.

So let's take a page from Ayn Rand's school of thought today. What is it that makes you uniquely you and no one else? Do a freewrite of discovery as you celebrate your own unique and individual self.

posted by lit lover at 11:10 AM