Who Do You Think You Are? Identify Yourself!

How you think is how you are. You don't look at the world from what it is, but from what you are. You only discover on the outside what you've already discovered on the inside.

You spend your time thinking about what people think of you, but you don't know their thoughts — because you barely know your own.

Why anchor your self-worth to skills, preferences, abilities, or possessions?

Skills are developed, preferences are chosen, abilities are trained, and possessions are acquired — but even with all of them, you can still end up in the same place you are today.

Your journey may be inside out. You want to gain recognition and then find something to identify with. Or you want to accumulate more to feel at peace with who you are.

Maybe you think your preferences, tastes, or personality define who you are. But you notice that every week you like something different, and that confuses you. Or worse: you resist any change in your tastes, afraid your self-definition will fall apart.

Stop trying to define yourself and simply identify yourself. Labels cannot tell you who you are. They're like a map on the journey of self-discovery — nothing more.

The map doesn't define the path; the path defines the map. And if the path changes, the map changes with it. But without a map, you can remain lost.

Anxiety is the belief that we can reach the end of this path. We can't. It is a one-way road, but the joy isn't in the destination — it's in the journey.

I am still identifying myself. Are you?