For the Good of Readers

"You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,/But I shall be good health to you nevertheless"
-Walt Whitman, From Song of Myself

What comes to your mind when you think this? Are you like the high percentile that doesn't believe in what someone says unless you know why he is saying it...rather it be good information or bad? Or do you think, "hey he's right, whatever." To me, we all have over-sized heads. To me, most of us will not be in the truth because there will always be a lie that could be made up of the truth. Try to understand what I am trying to convey here. We are all surrounded by evil, and evil that doesn't and will not ever leave. You know and I know that there are horrible things in this world that twist and turn the truth and leave people starving for sick and demented treasures. When this man says, "You will hardly know who I am or what I mean," I think he is trying to tell us that we may not know what he is telling us because of our non relating situations-him being in the truth and us being in a lie, or an altered state. I think he means this because he chose to say we wouldn't understand him, rather then we wouldn't believe him. Obviously if he said we wouldn't understand him then we are in a situation in which we cannot relate to him. Or, we do not have the tools to understand him at the moment. I just happened to think it is because of us being caught in something that isn't real, or fake. I believe that I think this due to my religious belief. I think that this relates to the word and stories that God has chosen us to read from. I think this because mostly all of us cannot fully comprehend what God wanted us to learn from the stories and words in the Bible. Some stories seem utterly out of this world, but we are told that it is for our own good. Believing and striving through works that don't necessarily seem real is having faith to me. Not a lot of people have this because they cannot readily believe that something is scientifically or logically proven to be true. I think that when Whitman writes this in his poem he understands this. He tells us that we won't know who he is or what he means, but he also gives us reassurance by telling us that it will be for the good of us. I think he is trying to reach faithless people. Not necessarily faithless people in God, just faithless people in general. He might be trying to tell an insecure person who doesn't believe someone easily to trust him, and learn that he has good for them. This poem is intended to be good for people in the sense that he is reassuring people that he has good health for us. He doesn't tell us that we won't get good health, or we have to work for it-just that we won't know who he is or what he means. Then he gives us hope regardless. He states that we will be given good health from him nevertheless.