What makes a person?

[Sorbitol]

What makes me any different from the person next to me? What defines me? Is it something as frivolous as what I wear? Is it something as epic as every single action or event leading up to this second? I'm at a loss. Could not the person who sits across from me on the bus be me? Could I be him? What right have I to say? In society I am a diligent, introverted student but in the reality of things I am no one really. I was born a lump of clay and molded by everything and everyone. So am I then simply that? It is almost disappointing to say that this is true. Some one asks who I am and I tell them my name but that is just a word. I could tell them that word couldn't even begin to represent all that I am but would that even be a correct statement? In truth I believe I am not an individual. I believe this because if I were the only person to ever have existed who then would I be? An animal. The defining factors in my life would all be non-human. We are all mirrors reflecting society. I am society. When a person isolates himself he loses his sense of being and his personality breaks down. So I ask you what is a person if not people? What is a man if not a woman? What is a child but an adult? The only thing separating us is the physical world and time itself. I find this disappointing because I find people disappointing. We are mindless animals. We are automatons. There is no free-will. I could do as I please but I only please as has been done to me.    So many question marks and even less periods. These expressions are not my own as you know having read this. Any input or ideas are appreciated.

[pljames]

We all are raised from society. Be it parents grandparents adopted whatever. We are society until we start questioning society and what they think. Then we become individuals within society and not a copy of society. If you wish we have a twin, one is us as society and one is a individual within society. We are trying to find out where we as individuals belong in society. pljames