Who We Were Vs. Who We Are

January 20, 2010 · Posted in Tao · Comment 
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“Sometimes people think of themselves as who they have been and forget to keep being who they are.”

Life is a series of experiences.  As we live, we make choices related to those experiences.  Over time the choices we make become based on similar choices we made in the past instead of being a new choice based on the current situation.  This is accompanied by sayings like “that’s how it’s always been done” and “I’ve grown up now” as justification.

Before our growing history of choices, as a child and even young adult, we were “carefree”.  We lived for the moment.  We took risks.  We were ourselves.  But with each new choice we made, we slowly covered our fluid motions with structure.  Moment by moment we cemented ourselves into a statue-like shell.

There comes a point where we forget what it was like to be who we are, because all of our choices become based on who we have been through the years.  Nothing is new.  Colors are not as bright.  We have it all figured out.  We know how the world works.

So what’s the point?  Existence for the sake of just existing is hollow.

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