i

Doesn’t the letter i resemble a person with no appendages and a decapitated floating head? It could also be a pulpit with a black sun looming overhead, but I prefer the first image.

The letter i is a lonely letter. It often stands alone, surrounded by other letters who have bonded to form words. Also, i is more often than not the beginning of a very selfish sentence. For example, “I want to go out” or “I feel the heaviness of PMS dawning upon me” or “I should skip work and go home” or “I can’t believe my boss is sleeping on a bean bag in front of me…”.

I feel bad for the letter i. Though it is probably the most significant single letter word, not to mention the most powerful vowel, it seems as though it is destined to lead an outsider’s life. And when you’re on the outside, you look at everyone else with a degree of indifference and yourself with a great deal of self-importance. You can’t help but look inward for meaning because there is no one beside you to draw any meaning from. the truth is being an i means leading an isolated existence. But I guess an i has something that not a lot of letters can lay claim on… It can stand independently on its own.

In fact, when you place the letter i beside other letters (ie. It, is or indefinitely)… it loses much strength and its entire identity.