Day 61 - The identity you think you are does not exist.

Day 61 - The identity you think you are does not exist.
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Honestly- Who are we? Are we just temporary beings on the Earth, doing what is needed until our bodies can no longer do anything? Or are we here with a purpose? Each person, each identity that this place holds is unique, but unrecognizable. If we passed an amazing artist or thinker or doctor on the streets, we wouldn't think twice. We all have our own way of concealing our identity whether or not we have one in our minds.
Or - We give each person our own identity to make their lives more interesting than our own. Or more dull than what we like to believe our lives are. We make people into what we want them to be like a successful accountant or a low-life bum living off of welfare. We're so quick to judge a person by their outside appearance. As always, there is also the stereotypical identity we give each sex. Women are expected to be beautiful, thin, busty and graceful as portrayed by the media, and men are supposed to be "ripped", tan and basically a stud.
But these "identities" are false. No woman is perfectly thin and curvy and no man is the perfect guy to be in a relationship with. Most won't surprise you by randomly showing up at your house just to see you, and not all women can find their way around the bedposts. We all have that type of person pictured and built in our minds, waiting for them to show up, but fall for someone of lesser.
But never mind who the other people are - Who are you? Are you your own person, or who somebody molds you into? Look at yourself. Are you who you've wanted to be all along? Maybe you are not your own person. You've let media, family, significant others, and crushes shape you into a person you know you're not. And you've gone so far down this path that you don't even know where to begin to say no. You don't know what music you actually like, or what your personality really is. So what do you end up doing? You keep letting other people make the choices for you.
Even if you let yourself be controlled by you, what influences your choices? You may not follow the pop culture, but everything at one point was considered to be "pop culture". You could have decided which way in life you're going to go and what you want to portray yourself as... But are you afraid of what people might think? Of course you are. We all are. Some more afraid than others. It's why we conceal a certain part of us that we want no one to see. We hide the things that make us unique. We hide the artistic things we do, we hide the activities we enjoy.... We're afraid of people's criticism. Maybe no consciously, but we are. Every one of us. Until we learn to say "Hey - fuck you" which can take the most confident people years.
Yes, you think you have an identity, but look at yourself. Who do you represent? Yourself, what you believe, or who someone else wants you to be? That you have to decide for yourself. As someone once said: "The identity you think you are does not exist." So what does that tell you? You do not exist? It's possible.
What are we really? Things that take up space, or things that have a purpose? Meaningless beings doing more harm than good, or individual people with individual causes?
Will we ever know what we are? Or will everyone just continue to ask the question: What/Who. Are. We?