The world today tells that many individuals are exerting their all into becoming a known person. And this results in every hand getting busy acquiring assets because it seems gratifying. Food, clothing, shelter, and substances are indeed life necessities but the struggle for relevance shouldn’t be based on the pleasure that comes from having it all but on the desire to be who you are made for and the intentionality to live productively in it.
Amidst the chit-chat seen on social media, there is a regular saying I picked that goes thus ‘Do not try to be anyone but yourself’. It is a well-said word only if its neutral meaning were, humans, coming to the understanding of one’s individuality and functioning in that aspect. That is, everyone gets it right by standing in the originality of true existence.
Most of the time, the desire to be anyone else sets in out of the ignorance of one’s true individuality and it gives less help to human advancement because there has to be knowledge before development(humans can only evolve around what is known)
Yunno, our English teachers in primary and secondary schools should be applauded for making us write a story about ‘Ourselves’ a thousand times as growing kids. Someone like me had less clarity about who I was and had it mistook for my likes and dislikes. And each time I had the topic placed before me, I still went on emphasizing how I prefer chocolate to eba and I got a cool mark with huge confidence that I was a proud daughter of my parents.
But ….as I grew better, I realized I got the cool mark because that was just a school test and not the exact life question of ‘who am I and how can I find myself?
