One, single, lone, these are easy ways to look at one. A person can easily break down anything to be one of something. One is usually considered a small number, but what if everything is one? What if all people and everything around them is one? Everything affects everyone somehow, even though most people don't notice. .
A famous poet wrote on this concept. John Donne, was an English poet who lived from 1572 to 1631. One of his most famous works is titled "Meditation XVII." In this work he wrote, "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." He thought that all people were interconnected in some way. What if we were more than just interconnected, what if we are all of the same. That is why no man is an island, because we are all part of the greater whole. .
Walt Whitman also felt everything was connected. In "Song of Myself" he discussed this view. "I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,.
And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward. My sun has his sun and round him obediently wheels, He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit, And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them. There is no stoppage and never can be stoppage, If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run, We should surely bring up again where we now stand, And surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
