Disclaimer Redefined

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are clearly of my own and are not of my friends, foes, employers, next door neighbor blah blah blah.....

Are you kidding me? Is the above statement even any closer to truth? We are what we are because of how we were brought up, what kind of friends we had, which school we went, what society we come from, how the society treated us, how your boss treats you etc. While you and I are different and unique in a way, our views are always a function of the above mentioned variables and such. You play with them them and you will be different than what you are now. Every author, while trying her/his best to present their novel or poetry or a short story or a blog etc., uniquely, would be silently hoping that someone can identify his or her experience with the author's story. Does it not mean that the author hopes that her/his views can resonate with someone out there among the readers. Is it not because that the author believes that a person subject to a set of conditions ( while the set might be huge and complex to elaborate) will, over time acquire a similar set of views? I guess so. This holds good even to a non-confirmist. You must have a set of views to either adhere to or stand against. Either way your views are not yours. You acquire them. You own them or disown them in a way you can express. The way we express could be of any form. You and I are different in the form we take to express those acquired views. You and I are different in choosing which ones to adhere to or not. This prompted me to wonder then what leads to the individuality of each of us? Is it just that the views a person acquires alone make her/him original? My answer at this moment is no. A bunch of views alone cannot make someone original or special or good or bad? What is it then? I believe the deciding factor is the Free Will ( What is it, why is it, and how did it come about? --I dont know and will try to address sometime). But, I have a reason to believe it is the Free will that can make a person different from the other and not the views. Let me give a simple example. Assume a situation where a blind man trying to cross a road. Two views exist that "the blind man needs help" and "he doesn't". While some of us might believe in the former viewpoint, others could be of the latter viewpoint. Few of some of us who believed that the blind man needs help might even go ahead and help him while the rest of us stop at just believing the man needs help. Those who went ahead go further ahead in exercising their free will. Eitherway it is our free will that prompts us to believe in one viewpoint or the other, to act one way or the other and we differ solely by our will. Just to note, the blind man here could be interpreted as general as the caste system in our society (an eternal social malady that haunts us generations after generations) or something as personal as the emotional struggles we have in our day to day life. Believing that the blind man needs help is just half way. Our free will is much more capable than that. I might need far more mental reach and time than I can afford to fully understand the free will and what it is capable of but I just believe it as the supreme power in oneself that could make all the difference. With that, I redefine my disclaimer.
Disclaimer Redfined: The views expressed here are not fully of my own. They are acquired. I just lend my time,words and free will to talk for or against them trying not to distort them way too much.