Who are you, and who could you become?

Are you able to answer, “Who are you?”

If you were to completely strip yourself of the identity you have now, would you be able to say who you are from within?

Without your name, family lineage, nationality and ethnicity, life experiences, hobbies and interests, likes and dislikes, wants and needs.

Would you be able to answer, “Why are you here in this world?”

Would you be able to name the exact or significant reason for your existence?

Let's imagine that you are a source of energy—an entity of pure consciousness and nothing else.

You were then born into a family—the beginning of your existence.

Now you have a family, a name given to you—not by your own choice, but by those around you.

Slowly, you start growing up. You learn to walk, talk, eat, and function as a human being.

You are provided with assistance when you cannot do things yourself.

When you become capable, you begin doing things on your own.

Throughout the timeline of your existence, you have been exposed, conditioned, and indoctrinated into various aspects of life.

As a result, you have been assigned different identities throughout your life, whether you were aware of it or not.

One person might call you one thing.

Another might call you something else.

And you yourself may either believe those labels or doubt them.

You might adopt a certain identity and carry it throughout your entire life, believing it to be an absolute and unchangeable truth.

But is it?

So, who are you?

The name is not truly yours, yet it has always been you.

Parents, siblings, friends, colleagues, lovers—they are part of your life, yet they are not "yours" until you label them as such.

All the constructs that make you a "human" feel so abstract, yet so certain.

If you need a minute or perhaps even longer, sit with this question and go inward.

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But if you wish to continue and return to the reflection later on, that is perfectly fine as well.

Now that you have been introduced to this paradoxical question about life, how would you go about answering it?

As for me, when I asked that question,

‘Who am I?”

If I am not my name, my nationality, my job, my relationships and my preferences…then who am I?

It took me quite some time to arrive to an answer.

And even today, I am still observing and witnessing what I am and could become.

But from the understanding I have gathered so far, I realised that I am…

Someone who gets emotional quite easily.

Someone who prefers slowness over rush.

Someone who craves authenticity over shallowness.

Someone who values my own and others emotions.

Someone who believes that magic and miracles exist.

Someone who seeks hope even in hopelessness.

Someone who make mistakes and learn from it.

And someone who is still growing, changing and discovering.

So, beneath every identity I have been given or earned, even if one day everything were stripped, I could still tell you who I am.

From the beginning of my existence until it’s eventual cessation, I would be this and many more things yet to be discovered.

I may be given or earn various identities throughout my life: an artist, a writer, a daughter, a friend, a creator and countless others.

But beneath all those identities, who I truly am and will always remain.

So, are you willing to sit down with your thoughts and explore who you are and who you could become?

It doesn’t cost any money.

Perhaps only a little of your time.

But I think it is worth it.

Because if it can help you understand yourself more deeply, it may also help you understand the world with greater depth, compassion and clarity.

Maybe knowing who you are isn’t about finding some cosmic answer.

Maybe it’s about recognising the qualities that remain constant beneath all the roles you play in your life.

If everything that could be taken away from you was taken away, what part of you would still remain?