.Know yourself.

"the world always reflects back to us what we embody"


Striving to become the person I know I will become has not always been an easy task. In a world where so much is happening, its so easy to ignore yourself. As infants we are born with an egocentric view of the world, but it doesn't last too long. As we grow older, we learn that the world is not just as we see it, and things do in fact exist outside of the realm of our five sense and the ways in which we interact with things. This is necessary for survival. In order fo us to survive, we need to learn that there are things outside of us, but in doing so, some of us lose ourselves forever. Some of us become so preoccupied with the world around us that we forget that we are a being within this world.


How many times have you stopped and thought about who you really are? How many times have you asked yourself who the hell am I? or What the hell am I? The simple answer of human being does not even begin to come close to being the answer necessary in order to live in this world effectively while knowing your purpose as the same it.


It is important for us to set time aside each day to really explore ourselves and get to know the extraordinary concept that we are. Not just personality, but every component that makes us who we are from our thoughts to acknowledging the fact that within us, there are millions of things working together to make us who we are, and to keep us -alive-. The blood that washes all over our body, giving life to the tissues that compose the structure that eventually makes us whole. The breath that allows us to connect to others before and after us. As we breathe in the air of others and breathe it out allowing them to breathe ours in, the air we breathe is recycled, we are all connected. 


Being intune with yourself, not neglecting yourself due to distractons leads to higher understanding of the issues that come about due to those distractions that could potenitally lead you astray from youruself. How can we expect life to go the way we want it to if we don't know ourselves?


Appreciation of ourselves, our human capabilities, the things that set us apart and the things that unite us with others undoubtdely will lead to great love for oneself, awe that we exist and gratitude that we exist. Our purpose, although it may be occluded and cloudy will be made clear, and the road towards fulfilling that purpose will eventually seem straighter. Pay attention to yourself, at all times. Learn to distinguish between wants and desires and what you yourself needs because wants and desires are false portrayals of need and can further lead us away from understanding and being one with ourselves. They add fuel to the fire of ignorance and we are unable to live out our lives to its full potential. I believe everyone on this earth has the ability to be happy in life and  understand its purpose and their own individual purpose on this earth, so long as they understand that just being, and listening to themselves, the awe of their existance, and subseqently the awe of what exists around them. Life is incredible, and all the different roads and pathways we could take during our existance are proof of what we are capable of and what can be achieved pending our ability and our deisre to know ourselves.