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The Royal “We”
Here’s a bizarre thing that I’ve never addressed before: I have always referred to myself as “We.” Whenever I have faced a trial in my rather long life — physical, financial or emotional — I have reassured myself with the mental words, “This is only a stage that we are going through.”
“We?” Why “We?” Does anybody else do this?
I could argue that I do this because I’m talking to myself, like Cicero addressing the Roman Senate — so there must be an audience, someone to be talking to! Therefore, it is only reasonable to couch it in terms of “us” rather than just “me.”
Hence, “We are experiencing this.”
The more pertinent question, I suppose, is whether I am listening to myself. Is the Senate persuaded by the argument?
And the more profound point is that I may be somehow acknowledging all my past lives and all my attentive Guardians and Guides. This is such a subtle assumption, so close to the core of my very Being, that I never stopped to question it before.
