Not who you are, who you are becoming

Since life is always changing, the question who are you? is less useful than who you are becoming?

When asking who you are or have been you strip the life out of your view in order to get a snapshot of something that's in constant change.

The person who wonders who they are loses energy resisting who they are becoming. Paying more attention to a past snapshot makes it harder to do the things you actually want to do because of the prison of self image.

To wonder who you are is a lie. To see who you are becoming is...
Nice. How did I miss this?

Who are you becoming Sir Abe?

2021-06-10 00:52:36
Good stuff.

I'd like to think if you focus much on who you are becoming you may not enjoy the now of life. Appreciating today comes with acknowledging all you are right now or something like that. Both are actually equally useful.

By the day why did you ignore 
keni
 's question... Who are you becoming?
2021-06-11 13:52:06
Haha I wasn't ignoring it. I was going to reply in a full post.

I've never ignored Keni! There's even things from
200WAD
days that I still need to respond to from her haha.

I wrote this though, Seun, with the idea that maybe there is no such thing as who we are. Who we are is just our best attempt at snapshotting a more complex thing that is actually alive --> who we are becoming. 

I'll write more on this later once the idea is developed.
2021-06-11 16:47:25

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