Finding yourself is a process that I find many people await. It's not as easy as looking it up in the dictionary who you are supposed to be. I find that its about going through things to get to the deeper meaning of who you truly are. Digging in ways that at times can be the most difficult,but at others the most amazing. We put ourselves through tough times to see how strong we are, we put ourselves out there to see how emotional we are, and sometimes we pass, but others we fail. We change our look hoping that it will bring us some insight to who we are, but we get lost in another translation of trying to be something we are not. We try many new things as well, new tv, new music, new friends, new places to hang. Go on road trips and visit old friends, dying and trying to figure out who we are. We go to college, move away from home and develop relationships that can cause us pain or complete happiness. What is the purpose of doing this to ourselves??? To find out who we really are? Maybe in reality we already know who we are but we dont trust ourselves to be that person that is digging down deep inside. we have pushed them down that far and dont want them to surface. maybe its time we let our guard down and just be who we are meant to be. no masks, no shame. just you.
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer." ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
