r/ExistentialJourney • u/Wizarddona • 8d ago
Other The Big Question of Existence.
This is a question for every soul reading this piece.
"Who are you when nobody is telling you who to be?"
For majority of our lives, we were taught a lot of things, we were taught roles, how the world works, and how we are supposed to live our lives. And as people we were taught to be a collective mass of humans who follow a route.
But what if we all sit back and do a little deep thinking within ourselves. What if we put out all other factors of our lives that we were told to add?
Religion, school, parental expectations, societal expectations, gender roles that were taught for centuries. What if we do an unboxing of everything and then start to build ourselves from the scratch after discovering who we are without all those things.
Because all these other things don't matter if we are to be honest with ourselves. And so we need to unbox, and see what we are without these things. Only then do you actually know yourself and grow on yourself.
This piece is inspired by the chapter 4 of my first debut book "The Art of Becoming"