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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
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Posted: Tue Jun 12 23:16:18 1984
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|    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   |
|                                           |
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    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