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You Are What You Believe That You Are
It really is that simple.
Who are you? That can be an incredibly loaded question. Who you are might not be a simple, singular answer, either.
This might or might not be familiar to you: At work, you put on a specific mask, attitude, and persona. When you’re with family, the face you wear and the person you project is who they expect you to be. With friends, depending on the group, you’re the clown or the voice of reason.
Alone, all by yourself, who are you? And is that the real, most genuine, authentic you?
For too many people, the answer is clearly “I don’t know.” How can I state that? Because, here at the start of Pride Month, people are showing their fear of allowing people to be themselves. And that tends to come from not knowing yourself well at all.
The simplest ideas are often rejected because of their simplicity. It can’t possibly be that easy, right? What if it is? What if the easy notion, the simple solution, is the truth?
This is not about big things and grand ideas. What I’m on about here is getting to the bottom of the question, “Who are you?”
The simple answer is that you are what you believe that you are. This, however, becomes complicated because you might not know what you believe about…
