Pre-Amble:
I’ve started over a year ago to try to get to know myself. I set off with the goal of becoming self-aware. Not the self-aware you are thinking, because you’re probably thinking that you’re self aware. Well you’re not. The human ego is a terrifying thing that makes you believe you’re self-aware. You think you know yourself. But what you know is the ‘personality’ you’ve developed over your entire lifetime that you present to/project onto others. The one that is moulded and shaped by the unconscious coping mechanisms you develop when you confront difficulty, challenges, adversity.
The goal I am trying to reach is to be […]