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Are You an Original or a Copy?

by Miki Saxon

Are you and original or crowdsourced?

I’ve always been an original, much to my family’s consternation when I was growing up and to friends, bosses and colleagues since.

Being an original isn’t the easy way to go. It’s far more comfortable to be a copy; to follow without question the ideology, religion, parents, friends—anyone or anything that takes away the fear of making the wrong choice.

I don’t remember feeling scared as I careened through my early life taking sometimes crazy risks, but never without doing worst case analysis first.

I even adopted Frank Sinatra’s My Way as my personal theme.


FRANK SINATRA – MY WAY (FROM THE ROYAL FESTIVAL… by Mukhran

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows –
And did it my way!

Do you have a theme for your life?

YouTube credit: Mukhran

2 Responses to “Are You an Original or a Copy?”
  1. MAPping Company Success Says:

    […] I make a lot of them, I’m told, because I do it my way. […]

  2. KG Says:

    Miki,

    I congratulate you, and commiserate. You have chosen a frightfully difficult path in life, one Wichner I share. Difficult, frightening and rewarding. But it's the only way for us anomalies.

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