SELF DISCOVERY
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
If we should ask ourselves “WHAT AM I?” or rather “WHO AM I?” we realize no one particular answer sticks. There is a list of options to pick from if we are, to be honest. At least the one that could best suit our personality. No one man is a particular thing, he may have one ideology and he’s never truly a specific identity. So most times we are conditioned to define ourselves by the roles we play; father, brother, son, husband, wife, sister, doctor, engineer, and the lists go on. But then again, we often play more than one role at a time, because we can be both at the same time different persons to different people. Therefore it becomes impossible to answer who we are, as the roles we play.
The nagging question in our life journey is the question of “who am I?” so much that Aristotle penned down that “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”?How do you find out what we are? The life we live is a sketch of no final piece. There are no past lives for us to compare it with and we don’t know of any future lives to contrast it to; all we have is just this one life.
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And no matter a man's status, there is no fulfillment, and living is incomplete without an acute sense of self. One’s whole duty is to know themselves. And Gandhi gave us a clue to which I agree. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
I hope you find the time to know yourself.
Thank you for reading.