Who Am I?

Who Am I?
The Path to Self Discovery
It’s startling to see how many of us actually know very little about ourselves. Many people often ask themselves “Who am I?”. A common example is anticipating an upcoming event. It may be something you have always wanted to try and something that you are sure you will enjoy. Yet, once the experience is over we decide that we don’t like it as much as we thought.
Humans are changeable and our likes and dislikes come and go. What about our fundamental personalities? Is that more stable? Some of our characteristics are more consistent over time, for example — whether we are shy or outgoing. These are our traits and they tend to be stable. Despite this, most of us still have many unanswered questions about ourselves…
Do I really love my partner or not? Should I study Architecture or History? Am I gay or am I straight? Am I lazy or am I frightened to move forward? There are so many questions that we ask ourselves on a daily basis that many of us do not have a definitive answer to. Why is this so?
I believe this is partly due to societal conditioning. We are groomed from an early age to be nice, fit in and please others. School continues this grooming and conditioning, teaching us to conform for the greater good. Some of this conditioning is so insidious and long term that we do not even see it as conditioning. We absorb the ideas that are repeated to us over and over again and they become a part of who we are…or

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