Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-vision.CDN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!mokhtar From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.CDN (Farzin Mokhtarian) Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles Subject: Never stop fighting Message-ID: <414@ubc-vision.CDN> Date: Tue, 12-Jun-84 23:16:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.414 Posted: Tue Jun 12 23:16:18 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jun-84 06:46:05 EDT Organization: UBC Vision, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 28 +-------------------------------------------+ | | | To be nobody but yourself in a world | | which is doing its best night and day | | to make you like everybody else | | means to fight the hardest battle | | any human being can fight and | | never stop fighting. | | | | E. E. Cummings | | | +-------------------------------------------+ In case you ever wondered why everyone seems to stick so religeously to their male/female roles, I think you can find the answer in this poem. What if "being socialized" reguires me not to be myself? It certainly is easier to be socialized sometimes than to keep `fighting' it, and never stopping. The "hardest battle" certainly doesn't sound easy, specially if it never stops. But easy is no fun, is it? That's why we are always searching for harder problems to solve. Why fight the "hardest battle"? To preserve the `self'. To survive mentally and spiritually. It's worth every second of it. Anti-social? No. I am just being myself. Farzin Mokhtarian