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Who am I?
<p>Who are you?</p><p>Someone asked me that question once.</p><p>Before then, I would have thought the answer was sitting right at the tip of my tongue. Simple. Obvious.</p><p>But when I actually stopped to think about it, I realized something unsettling:</p><p>Maybe I didn't know.</p><p>Who am I? What defines me?</p><p>I started examining the things I considered mine.... my music taste, my favorite foods, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes. One by one, I traced them back and discovered that many of them had been influenced by someone else along the way.</p><p>The songs I listen to. The foods I enjoy. The clothes I wear. Even some of my opinions.</p><p>As I made a list, I began to wonder how much of me truly belonged to me.</p><p>The things I thought I loved suddenly felt less certain. Had I chosen them for myself, or had I simply collected them from the people and places I encountered?</p><p>They say society shapes us, and maybe that's true. But how much of us is society, and how much is genuinely us?</p><p>Where does influence end and identity begin?</p><p>The question lingered.</p><p>Then I noticed something interesting.</p><p>The things I do when no one is watching.... when I'm completely alone..... those seem to feel the most authentic. The habits I don't perform for anyone. The interests I don't explain. The moments that exist without an audience.</p><p>Maybe those pieces are closer to who I really am.</p><p>And perhaps that's why self-discovery feels so endless.</p><p>I am a universe still being explored, yet I've spent so much of my life living as if I were only a planet.</p><p>I am a book with countless chapters, but I've only read the first one.</p><p>So, who are you?</p><p>And more importantly, who are you beneath the expectations, influences, trends, and borrowed ideas?</p><p>I don't know if I'll ever have a complete answer to who I am.</p><p>What I do know is that I'm on a journey of self-discovery.</p><p>Maybe you should take one too.</p>
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