Originality!

I was chatting with someone on Facebook and the person asked about my body type; and since I am fond of coining words, I did a coinage to describe my physique. It was a portmanteau of ‘Skinny’ and mountain ‘Kilimanjaro’ [representing tallness]; and the coinage became ‘Skinnymanjaro’, denoting the condition of being tall and skinny, and having long, lean and dangling limbs.

After the chat, I thought the word was awesome and I should probably own it, but I had to Google it first; I do that all the time, just in case; and to my surprise some seemingly popular dude had already taken it as his profile name on ‪‎Facebook, ‪Soundcloud and ‪‎Instagram, even though his goes as “Skinnyman Jaro” [spaced]

Now the point I am trying to make, or the moral of this short account goes on to confirm Abraham Lincoln’s quote that “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.” It goes on to endorse Marie Antoinette’s quote that “There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.” It confirms what Stephen Fry said: “An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.” It confirms Ralph Waldo Emerson’s paradox that “All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.” and Coco Chanel said: “Only those with no memory insist on their ‪originality”

Now I can confirm that it is not unusual for people to inadvertently think or express the same thing at different times and in diverse places. I believe ‪#‎authenticity is what is of the essence; trying to say or do something that has never been said or done may be easier said than done