Who am I? Do your former professions define who you are as person? If they do not, then why would any of those matter when trying to describe who you are? Why would they define you? Have certain experiences happened to you while you were working in those professions and those experiences changed you as a person? What does that mean? You are still the same person. Your consciousness hasn’t changed. Perhaps you have gone through a traumatic experience. Maybe that experience left you physically or emotionally paralyzed. How would you then describe yourself? Would you use that experience to help illustrate who you are because you think it defines you? Just because that experience has shifted the way you view similar situations or circumstances; that does not make you a different person than you once were. You just have insight to that situation and have a perceptive that perhaps others do not. That experience should not define who you are.
I want to understand the world as if I were blind. I could perceive shapes but not color. My reality would than become shapes without distinction. Creativity would engulf every thought. I would have to imagine a world that has never been seen. There is a beauty in living in a black and white reality and having to imagine what colors would look like. The innocent and simplistic idea that there is much more to our reality than our personal perspective.
Who I am is not who I was. Who I am is not what I have done. Who I am does not consist of what I own. Who I am would not be who I will become. I am merely just one of the millions of creatures living on this Earth. I experience physical and mental pains, cognition and vastly varying emotions. I am aware that one day I will die. What that means to me is that, I am aware of my reality now and one day I will not be aware. Whether or not I experience pain while dying would in a sense be irrelevant. The end result would be worse than the pain to get there. Trying to understand life is not as important to me as enjoying life. Go out there and start living! – Z
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