I Miss The Old You

I’m wondering about something...

I was thinking of singing, and I came across the word “Me” in theoretically vocalizing a more ‘A’ vowel. But then I stopped to realize “Wait a minute...then it would cease to become the word ‘me.’

Should a factor change in a grand scheme of things—a single factor, would that factor alter what the very picture is in the first place?

Take an apple for instance. Why is it an apple? --Simply because it has a combination of characteristics that we call as a whole an ‘apple.’ Say that we change an aspect of the apple; say it were perfectly square and tasted bitter and sour. Would it cease to be an apple?

Now say we take this same concept and apply it to mankind. If I were to transform a skill of mine—say create for me a perfect singing ability. Or a change in hair color. Do I cease to become ‘Will?’ What is ‘Will?’ Will is, me of course! But do I share the same theoretical existence in the mind as we know of the apple? I am Will because there exists a combination of characteristics and features I have, to what we know as ‘Will.’ Should that change, would I cease to be ‘me?’

Perhaps we might look at a more extreme angle to justify the means of this complex question. What if God were to artificially transform my personality into that of a pessimist, a strong and stubborn one? Do I cease to be who I am? But then again...there comes the question: Who exactly am I?

I must simply be a living organism with a label. All changes aside, I still retain the label as long as I remain in one piece. But should that label change to accompany the changes within me? Perhaps, perhaps not.

Dumb Will.

Stupid Will.

Engineering Will.

Will.

Will can mean anything.

Will can mean nothing.

Existence, is ambiguous.

What do you think?