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Posted by diverdown1 @diverdown1, Jun 14 6:58am

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. "

~E.E. Cummings

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hraka13 | @hraka13 | Jun 15 1:36am

I don’t understand “to make you everybody else”.

diverdown1 | @diverdown1 | Jun 15 7:35am

Other people have expectations of what they think "I" am supposed to be. Cummings, I think, is saying that everyday people come at us with those expectations and it is difficult to remain true to oneself no matter what others try manipulate, ask, or think I "should" be.