Original or photocopy

A couple of weeks ago, I commented on a post on facebook titled " You were born an Original, don't die a Copy" and I'd like to share it with you.

Sometimes, it's much more better to be a photocopy edition of a person other than an original one. Think of great people such as prophets, the righteous people and the reformers. To make it more realistic, take Mahatma Gandhi or Nilsson Mandela as contemporary examples. What would you prefer a photocopy of these great men or an original edition of one of our authority men. Let's step down one more step and talk about love and life. Don't you agree with me that a photocopy of the Titanic guy who sacrificed his own life saving his girl would be your favorite other than an original guy who left his girl right in the midway, alone, wrecked, scared, lost and desperate.
I myself prefer to be a pail photocopy of one of those colorful figures rather than to be an original THING of one of those who torture and slaughter the innocent people.

Originality means to be positively different and unique in our morals, values and beliefs.

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Comment by Free Will on March 23, 2013 at 19:02: Thank you my dear friend Tawfeeq. Your comment highlights the good nature of man, and also presents the religious, the spiritual and the moral sense of our existence. I'm just wondering what would life be without these concepts?

Comment by tawfeeq on March 22, 2013 at 11:56: We always see and read such a sentence:
((I am what I am. If people don’t like me, I can’t help it.
I am as God made me)).

I would tell you sorry ,but you are not you are as circumstances, environment, and your own ignorance have spoiled you.
God creates us and puts inside us the love of changeability towards goodness. We are not unchangeable.

HE sends down messenger and thinkers and books to transform , guide us from vice to virtuous. As example Qur'an lights the way to the whole human race , teaches us how to live .
But Man is silly on the matter of improving himself .He always decline to evil.

Thank you Free for your nice topic.

Comment by Free Will on March 20, 2013 at 8:54: "knowledge is power". I totally agree with you Hala J.M. Your comments always add special flavor to my words. Thank you so much and take care yourself. Peace

Comment by Hala J.M on March 19, 2013 at 21:38: I think if we can take the wisdom of Gandhi ,the imagination of Enistein ,the deep insight to humanity and life of Shakespeare ,the peaceful soul of Martin Luther king and the big heart of Romeo or the Titanic guy ...we can have a unique and special originality .

That's why learning and reading are so important ,it's not by getting higher degrees but higher knowledge and wide understanding of what we want to be ...we can create our personality and add to it the goodness and the greatness of those whom you mentioned .

Thank you for sharing this meaningful and thoughtful topic !

Best wishes !