You Are Me - I Am You - We Are Each Other! - By Dandy Ahuruonye © 2000 - 2014

You are me and I am you, they are us and we are them - why?

Our lives inter-cross and interact so much that at the end of the day we are all the same. Simply because of the way we live.

Take a high rise office complex as an example; there are often no windows. These offices are either air-conditioned or climate controlled which means everyone breaths in same air pumped in through pipes.

In this same complex gents use same toilet, while ladies do exactly the same and therefore breaths in the smell from each other's waste discharge.

At lunchtime all heats up their lunch and everyone in the kitchen can smell each other's food. And that is just in the physical realm. In the virtual front there is also the same sharing since we use same computer interface, same software, and often same phone line and number albeit diversified into personalised extensions.

When you leave this office building you enter your fossil-fuelled car and join the traffic queue on the motorway on your way home. On this road most if not all drivers breath in air polluted by each other's vehicle, beep at each other, and almost arrive home same time.

At home we live in identical houses, stay awake due to noise from neighbours, and only nod off after the neighbours have gone to sleep also. Essentially, we sleep the same time.

On the nutritional realm we buy our food at the same supermarkets, our menu is more or less the same. We fly same airlines to same holiday destinations and probably share same hotels.

We all do the same thing everyday.

Consequently - wherever you are or whoever you are - we are each other and we can't help it; that's just how the modern life has turned out.

Still I doubt anyone would opt to live in the middle of nowhere, an island where he will be on his own and does his own thing without crossing anyone's path. How then will he communicate or travel? How will this person find cures for his ailments or email his cousin in the mainland?

Now - have you ever wondered why is it that you are me and I am you? Perhaps it is because we have a common ancestry!