Why Am I Me?

Do you ever wonder why you are you and not
someone else? As a child, I used to stand in the stalls in the girls bathroom in grade school and wonder about this until my small body shook with the intensity of wanting to know the answer.
Church offered reasons: “God made you just the way you are.” But WHY God? Science told me “genetics” determined who I was. Psychology told me “You are a mix of nature and nurture.”
Eventually I came to realize that we are partly a mix of genes, our environment,  cultural factors, etc. And then there is us. The us that makes choices, the us that seeks to understand ourselves and our world, the us that (if we are fortunate) eventually comes to recovery and seeks to go beneath the learned behaviors to the heart and soul of ourselves.

It is in recovery that we find the truth of ourselves. In reconnecting with this truth, we can begin to live an authentic life. It is a blessing, a choice, and a lot of hard work. We must be willing to face hard truths about ourselves, put aside easy lies, and grapple with acceptance of what is in favor of what we wish was.

There is a saying “The truth will set you free. But first it will make you miserable.” The person who came up with this knew what they were talking about. Truth is not easy, truth is hard won and it is individual. The truth of my life is not the truth of yours. Even siblings, raised in a common home, may perceive the same circumstance in diametrically opposed ways.

Come to know your perspective and own it. I invite you to get acquainted with the person you are deep inside. Maybe then you will have an answer to the question “Why am I me?”

Wishing you growth inside and out,
Mary

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