The search for Identity

Who are we? And how long would it take us to answer this question?

In life we all live in multiple bubbles, social, emotional, religious, political, physical, comfort, and most dangerously Mental Bubbles. We seem to accept that those bubbles are who we are, but is that true?  Did we create those bubbles or somehow they surrounded us?

I think that the way to really know who we are is to simply live. By that I mean we need to challenge ourselves all the time. We need to break out of our comfort zones and experience what we might not like, what we might hate in order to really know what we like; to realize our own strength, abilities and true self. 

Those bubbles work as barriers between us and life. Once we break out of them, we can live life and get closer to who we are. The closer we are to ourselves and the more we know who we are, the stronger we get, and the more we believe in our abilities. Knowing ourselves gives us the inner stability to continue our life journeys, and to have a clear vision of what is our journey.  

Breaking out of those bubbles is not easy; rather, it could be overwhelming and draining. We might not like what we experience and we might prefer to go back to our comfort zone. However, simply trying to do that gives us more strength and more insight towards who we are.

The important question is how much are we trying to know who we are? And if we don’t know who we are does that mean that we are a live, dead or maybe lost?

 

Salma Taleb

سلمى طالب

August 07,2013