How to learn who am i. By A. Vrillon

“Don’t be confused between what people say you are and who you know you are.”

Oprah

Sometimes there are moments in life where we ask ourselves many questions: “why do I have no money, why does this happen to me, why is life so unfair, what is my next goal?” But sometimes we forget to ask ourselves something very important: “who am I?” And if you don’t know the answer, you are fucked, dude! 

Have you ever asked yourself who you are? I mean, you’re not your body, because living cells come and go and are generally out of your control. You’re not your home, because that can change. In my opinion, the answer to this question is: “You are what you learn”.

Most of the people to whom I asked this question don’t know how to answer it, and actually one of them was me. We tend to forget that the first thing in life that we need to know is yourself, nothing else.

If you know how to be a singer, that’s what you’ll be, at least until you learn something else. If you become a soldier, you’ll learn to control fear. If you go to an astronaut school, you’ll see the world so tiny. If you study engineering, you’ll see the world as a complicated machine that needs tweaking.

For me it’s incredible the way a person changes at a certain level as he or she merges with a particular field of knowledge. People who study Economics, for example, come out thinking a different way from people who study Graphic Design.

So, as you can see, you are actually many things, including your DNA, your whole body, your mind, your environment and more. Seeing it that way, you’re more of a soup than a single ingredient but the most powerful point of view is that you are what you learn everyday.