by Richard Hay

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Hay-Ku of the Day (Thinking Otherwise)

January 05, 2008 07:26 AM EST

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I can't find myself
As I Am because I think
I am someone else.

© 2007 RFHay

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*LORA* M. Jan 5, 2008, 8:12am EST

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Mary Z. Jan 5, 2008, 8:33am EST

Oh so true, Richard!
We all have images of ourselves as we think we ought to be and sometimes don't recognize our real selves.
Well done!

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J W. Jan 5, 2008, 9:21am EST

good haiku

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shannon k. Jan 5, 2008, 9:34am EST

good one

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Karl Leuba Jan 5, 2008, 8:05pm EST

Richard. You are wrong this time.

I can find myself
as I am, whenever I
think OF someone else.

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ELLEN B. Jan 5, 2008, 8:12pm EST

Good Job! Ellen B

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Richard Hay Jan 5, 2008, 11:20pm EST

Not sure this is about "me" being "right or wrong," Karl, but I would suggest that both statements are true; at least at the level of relative thinking (for in the original haiku said thinking focused on a "conceptual self" and in yours it focuses on "conceptual others").

Still and all, as thoughts go, yours is a "great one." In fact it's very close to a haiku the LA Dream Center once inspired:

Lose yourself in the
Needs of others and you will
Find yourself in God.

The "myself as I Am" (versus I as I think) referenced in the original haiku, however, refers to the pre-conceptual Awareness of Being I Am (and You Are) in Spirit and Truth (or the Mind of God); whereas, "thinking about others" (instead of myself) still requires a "conceptual self" (me, myself and I) as a central referent "separate and apart" from "those others."

In any event, your haiku is a great one.

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Angela B (There IS a light at the end of the tunnel) Jan 5, 2008, 11:47pm EST

Excellent point, Richard!

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Sherry W. Apr 29, 2008, 1:27am EDT

Good one.

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