Identity

Sometimes we look around us trying to find out our connection with what's surrounding ourselves.

We see different people from different places, ages and backgrounds, different life styles and so and so, but there comes a time when you cannot really feel related to it. Something does not match inside the whole picture.

Then is when the sacred question pops out. Who am I?

Well, who am I?

Am I supposed to be what others are telling me to be or telling me that I am? or am I just a consequence of what life had made out of me? Out of my experiences and what they made me feel like.

I guess there's no way possible that someone else gets to let people know who they are and why they do what they do. Only them may know.

So it happens when you try to tell someone what's right and what's wrong (with their lives of with life in general). They may listen to you but as long as that certain knowledge does not come from their inside then they won't be able to understand and far from it believe in what you are saying.

That will be just your interpretation of the matter.

Having said this. Here is my interpretation.

To be clear and happy with what you are you have to be really concerned with what you have been. With where you come from and be confident with it. Feel it right and inside you.

Again, there is no way possible someone who does not understand his or her background or does not feel 100 % right with it will be able to set his or her feelings about his or her present in their present. Let's not talk about the future.

Past is the key. And it has to be settled.

I know many people (including myself) that at times is or has not felt related to their past or their background. They didn't have any knowledge from it and because of that they start building their lives from their present. It's like trying to start to built the house from the roof, how can the roof hold up over something that doesn't exist. And suddenly something happens in their lives that makes them to reconsider or redefine what they are about. We have to start all over again. And we can be doing so our entire life. How is that feel?

We are human beings. We have a past, a present and something that it's called future. But everything goes in order. One thing goes after the other in terms of trying to give a meaning to our sense of existence. How can the totality of humanity be able to know who they are or where they come from or have a sense of what they are in present if they don't know clearly what they were in the past? How they got to where they are now...

How can some people live peacefully when they don't feel related to what their ancestors were about or don't even know what the history of their past and present is about?

It is of vital importance to feel right with our past. Being able to recognize it, feel that part that connects to it inside of us and look at ourselves now and from it, not from the present.

Some people will not even want to look at it because sometimes people now will say that coming back to the origin is as bad as moving backwards. But probably they don't understand that (as the Spanish song called 'Moving' by Macaco says): 'moving back to the origin is not moving backwards, but stepping forward towards knowledge'.

Once you recognize inside you what you also have been and feel right with it (which means understand it) you will be able to see yourself clearly within your present and feel calm in it.


By I. Morgades.