Individual

From Seven

According to Wikipedia I is the first-person singular subjective case personal pronoun in Modern English. It is used to refer to one's self and is capitalised, although other pronouns, such as he or she, are not capitalised.

According to the corresponding Wikipedia article about the Individual, "an individual is a person or any specific object or thing in a collection. Individuality (or selfhood) is the state or quality of being an individual; a person separate from other persons and possessing his or her own needs, goals, and desires. [...] From the 15th century and earlier, and also today within the fields of statistics and metaphysics, individual meant "indivisible", typically describing any numerically singular thing, but sometimes meaning "a person." (q.v. "The problem of proper names"). From the seventeenth century on, individual indicates separateness, as in individualism. (retrieved 2012-01-02)

Now, we as human beings are obviously far from being indivisible. We can cut our hair, finger nails and live on unharmed (and maybe even better looking). We can loose a limb and live on otherwise unharmed, and in severe cases can also been cut apart and ripped to pieces. On a more subtle level we get divided up every day, we shed our skin several times in the course of a year. More so, every single atom that ever made us up is replaced by another one or lost in the course of around seven years. This leaves us with a highly fragile and absolutely not stable or indivisible body.

And anyone claiming that their self is unchangeable and indivisible has never doubted a decision, has never fallen in love has never hated and has never found to be wrong.

So what is all this talk about the I(ndividual) worth?