When is it right to be our own island, to go our own way, and not give a fig what anyone else cares of us? This island says that our view is the right view, and damn all others who see differently, for our drummer is only our own.
And when it is right for us to use the mirror of our peer group, of our loved ones, as a guiding rein for our offsides actions or mistaken movements? This mirror says that we use the reflection as an indication of the veracity of our ideas. When the mirror feels hurt, we have obviously made a mistake...and must correct the sailing course?
Is life a series of dances, where we learn sometimes to make mistakes on our own, and sometimes to seek the mirrors? This is so very hard, knowing whether we are right in our perceptions.
No matter what, we are not islands, no matter how much we pretend we are. We are all interconnected; our actions do affect others. It is only self-involved people who think otherwise. Look at them all: people who think that their behavior affects no one else.
* No man is an island, entire of itself
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main
if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls
it tolls for thee.
-- John Donne
