Who do you think you are

Do you ever sit around and think about who you really are? What criteria do you use to determine if you actually are the person you think you are? How can you ever know? Is it what is inside you? Is it an accumulation of what other people think about you? Is it a sum of all of our actions throughout life? Or is it our thoughts that make up who we are? Do you care? These are some pretty intense questions to ask yourself. I would be willing to bet that most people don't give this a second thought. It seems the only timw anyone would ask these questions of themselves is during some critical juncture in their lives. Such as when they are about to get married, separated, divorced, dating again, having a loved one reveal a serious illness or someone dies. Is it ever worth performing this kind of self-examination? Why bother, right? I cannot disagree more. If we don't know who we really are, how can we possible live the type of life we wish to live? Socrates said "an unexamined life is not worth living". Personally, I agree with this statement. But what are the criteria to use for this self-examination? A battery of personality tests? A survey of all the people in our lives? A rote listing of everything we have ever done? Give it some thought, would ya? More stories from Paul Gavin. Info on novels Paul Gavin's Storefront. Technorati Tags: Fiction, Online Book, Chapter, Rebeleyeball, Paul Gavin IceRocket Tags: Fiction, Blook, Chapter, rebeleyeball