Who are you?            Some will respond to this question by using their names. Others by what they do and some by where they are from etc. The question of identity is an interesting one, so I thought I touch base on it because this is a question, I tend to explore a lot. When I say the ‘I;’ I am referring to the physical makeup and the collective memory that ‘I’ identify with for the purpose of anchoring. Okay, so now that we created some sort of referencing boundary to the ‘I’ or self we shall continue our exploration. Just before I do that, I want to share with you a bit as to why or how ‘I’ came to that question. I am sure who you are is a question that is asked of you at various interactions but the most important I find is when we ask ourselves that question. 

Who are you?         Asking that to and of self all the sudden evokes a different meaning. How we identify who we are potentially creates boundary to our interaction. Are we that we have done (past)? Could we be our imagination; meaning can we identify as what we are going to be (future)? Are we what we are in the present moment of time? After spending sometimes exploring this, the realisation or more so what I chose to identify with was that I am all of them. I am the collection of my memories both known and unknown. Known in the sense of what I can recall in my current state. Unknowns are memories that I accumulated beyond my physical lifetime e.g., the accumulation that I obtain of my mother, father, grandfather, grandmother and so forth. These accumulations tying back to inception of time but also beyond that to what we may consider as source. They are all I. Someone reading this may say that but that’s not how people see you when you walk the street though. This exercise has nothing to do with how external source identify you. When we go out into life, we have various roles that we play through certain time in life, but those roles constantly mold and shifts. So, to identify with a role through every facet of life is to limit the growth and potential of the self. Our work change, our environment changes and the I or self also evolves as a result.

The second question that I also explored was, could we be our imagination? In other word, can one identify with things yet to be realised in the physical existence? The response is yes, we do this all the time; we identify with our goals, dreams, ambitions, and hopes. Most time they have yet to actualise in the present moment but our tie to them are so strong that we would walk around as tomorrow, today. There is a lot of power in choosing how well we compartmentalise our identity because if we do so in a manner that is rigid and selfish of a larger collective, we become too destructive to ourselves and our environment. We don’t and won’t consider the nature of our makeup and accumulation. The world now is suffering from limited identity because we believe that what we do in our corner of the world have nothing to do with someone else’s world. The rain rains, water gather, river flows, ocean builds up. We drink this water and then we expel it back into life and life place efforts to clean that up so it can be of use in another facet. Yet we fail to see all this interaction and happenings because of rigid identity.