Yesterday I read a section from Thoreau's Walden, or Life in the Wood, which said "that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well." This brought up a deep-seeded belief that, so far as I know, I've carried with me as long as I've thought abstractly. People can only speak through themselves. How else would it make sense to explain anything? All that is seen, heard, and thought must go through the complicated pathways of our brains, being deconstructed and rebuilt along the way. Only then can we create any sort of personalized idea from it.
It should be considered as a part of Locke's Natural Law that any utterance given by a person is his own, no matter the influences. It is true that human thought is infinite, but it would be impossible to build, create, or think without first having the blocks to build off. For this reason, when a person is speaking clearly from themselves, rather than a scripted circumstance, influences should be disregarded, and word taken as his own.
As I write these blog entries, I will not abstain from using the first person, because that is inherent nature of my words. I will, however, from time to time, move to the third person for rhetoric or artistic flair, or quote from any one of the sources I hold nearly and dearly to be true, but the words should still be taken as my own.
I thank any readers in advance for their understanding of my views.
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