31 Days to Know You

NESTER sent out a challenge to write for 31 days on a single topic. I'm taking the challenge.

31 Days to a STABLE environment  became:

31 days to Know You

"To Thine Own Self Be True" 

 But first you've got to know your self. Not the you your parents wanted or your partner discoverd or your neighbors think they see. 

 Do you want to know who you are? Ask ten people to tell you what they really think. Then ignore what all of them say. They know what they see through their own eyes, not what you see through yours.

 Have you ever read the story about the Blind Man and the Elephant?

You are the Elephant -- In the next 31 days, find 31 ways to open your eyes and see who you really are:

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John Godfrey Saxe's poem The Blind Men and the Elephant (behind cut)

The Blind Men and the Elephant
John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)

It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind.

The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: "God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a WALL!"

The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried, "Ho, what have we here, So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a SPEAR!"

The Third approached the animal, And happening to take The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake: "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a SNAKE!"

The Fourth reached out an eager hand, And felt about the knee "What most this wondrous beast is like Is mighty plain," quoth he: "'Tis clear enough the Elephant Is very like a TREE!"

The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, Said: "E'en the blindest man Can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact who can, This marvel of an Elephant Is very like a FAN!"

The Sixth no sooner had begun About the beast to grope, Than seizing on the swinging tail That fell within his scope, "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a ROPE!"

And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!