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Do I Know Who I Am?
Knowing and showing who you are is often a matter of perception
I am not going to hold back any longer. I am showing who I am.
No more hiding aspects of who I am. The time is at hand for me to be the best me possible.
There are many aspects of myself that I tend to make light of, or give little to no acknowledgement of. Some of this has come from concerns about how people will take it. While other parts of it are my own internal fears.
One of the toughest questions to answer for a lot of people, and this was hard for me for a long time, is:
Who are you?
Even if you are not getting into an in depth existential inquiry about who you are, this can be a tough question to answer. Why? I think because we spend so much of our time reliving the past and focusing ahead to the future that we lose sight of the now. Only in the now is the answer true.
Who I was last year is not who I am now. Of course there are similarities and likenesses, but because the Universe constantly changes, who I am has changed. By this same token, who I will be next year is not who I was last year, nor who I am now. Same issue — change is constant.
Much of change is subtle and not easy to see. In particular, people tend to change slowly.
