That is what I am, that is what you are, and this is what all humans are. We’re not one single thing with one singular purpose, nor are we a closed system of thought, emotion and resources. No living thing is closed off from the resources of its surroundings but there are no other creatures with such freedom to decide who and what to be or become as a human being.

We are a limitless expanse of potential that can transform itself as it sees fit, and this has become our greatest asset and our greatest factor of paralysis by an endless line of choices. A bunny “knows” that its purpose is to nibble on vegetables and run from predators fast enough to live to reproduce. In this aspect, its life is far more simple than out own. If the fear comes to a bunny or a gazelle it is in direct response to the oncoming danger, but humans have the ability to fear the non-threatening circumstances which might not even exist, we fear memories and future scenarios as well as imagined presences. The ego is here paired with the primal biochemistry and it has a mission to keep you alive. But we differ from most animals in so much that we have the ego, the ability to view ourselves as entities somehow separate from others and the environment. This ego does, to some extent, protect the continuation of our bodily form but for the most part it interferes to protect our mental integrity and the notion of ourselves we’ve built upon the person we thought ourselves into believing we are. We are not a unity of things packet into what we call “I” and we’re far less under the control of one singular goal than we think. We’re a composite, a tectonics of things we’ve come into contact with fused with our natural basis of talents, preferences and patters. Some things will come hard wired, some you’ll pick up as you go along, and from the moment you are old enough to see yourself as a personality separate from your mother you have a sense of “I” driven by needs, desires, emotions… We are not what we think we are although we think we are that thing at every stage in our lif. Yet, you from 5 years ago and 5 years from now are not the same unity of traits although you considered all of the checkpoints of change in between as the real you. We’re a fluid, an interconnected ever evolving bundle of multiplicities and dichotomies, a moving constellation with no set parameters, because what you could be if you become everything you could become – if you stopped being paralyzed by fear, defined by the story of you you keep telling yourself, bound by norm and convention, if you step out of conformity and sameness and accept reality as it comes and make the best of the obvious and masked blessings – is truly limitless.

What if you incorporated all pieces of you, didn’t negate them but dissolved and integrated all of the contradictions? Who could you be if the boundary was boundless? We really don’t know and you can’t either unless you try. It’s a process that takes a lifetime. Is it worth it? Well, do you have anything better to do in this life but try and search for things that can be fixed or made better by your presence and to try and become the best version of yourself? Sometimes the change will be slow, sometimes it will be a quantum leap of insight mediated by knowledge, people, circumstance or an idea, but moving forward is always an option, and even if no one else sees you moving on the inside, move.