I'm nobody, who are you?

Pain is inevitable when you constantly strive to be someone. It’s difficult to stay on top of the game, push your boundaries all the time and make your space in the herd.

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Safeer Bhola
August 22, 2022

Hello hello!

Since it’s Monday, its the perfect time to talk about the rat race and what running in it everyday eventually leads to. Pain is inevitable when you constantly strive to be someone. It’s difficult to stay on top of the game, push your boundaries all the time and make your space in the herd.

However, in today’s world it seems to be a luxury to be no one. And that’s actually what the poet talks about in today’s poem. Today, everyone wants to be someone and no one wants to be a no one. Just like the frog, who is constantly pressurized to croak, we are pushed to stay on top.

This concept has been so fascinating for me that I wrote a whole piece on this back in 2017. While I do want to share an excerpt from it, you can read the full piece here.

It's almost as though Newton's third law had predicted this in a different context years ago:Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.For everything that we do we want a reward, and in doing so we underweight or ignore the "opposite reaction" aspect that exists. 

Ok, ill let Emily Dickinson do the talking now!

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

Are you — Nobody — Too?

Then there’s a pair of us!

Don’t tell! They’d banish us — you know! 

How dreary — to be — Somebody!

How public — like a Frog —

To tell one’s name — the livelong June —

To an admiring Bog! 

Slide into my DMs to talk about this and many other poems!

What I’m listening to today: Abhi Na Jao Chhod Kar by Javed Ali and Nishtha Sharma

Have fun!

SB