Do you really know who you are? (Few do)

                                         

Look back on your life.  

From as far back as you can remember.
The "wonder years", where you were learning the basics of everyday life (just being a kid)
Gradually being molded by those around you (parents or your grandpa/grandma. Uncles and aunts or even a family friend)  Your mind, taking shape to the world around you; the world you know.  For all of us, it is different.  

From the clothes on our back, food on the table to the activities we did, to pass the time in our everyday.  Our chores or responsibilities growing up; some had so many, and some had almost none.  There isn't that much to learn when you aren't exposed to very much outside in the world. 'The real world' after you've grown and should be ready to take on a life of your own.

From the term "helicopter parenting" or" free range parenting".  Always there guiding your child or hardly there to influence them as they wander about on they're own.  I was more of the latter, and could just about do what I wanted, (within my own limitations).  I knew of boundaries growing up.
I used common sense, most of the time.  Generations apart, clearly grow up differently; just look at those growing up today. (Technology overload!): 

 I am thankful that I was born several decades before.  Over the years of young adult, to mature adult; I have seen a lot change.  I have made many changes in myself, and so much remains the same.  Certainly I've changed for the better, as I've tapped into the real me. Losing the ego, gradually.

Hidden behind walls that were built around my inner self.  What is significant; I didn't let the changing times or society, change who I was over the years.  As many do, I've 'experienced alcohol and smoking and(some fads).  I never allowed myself to use drugs.  I could see the writing on the wall, on the path that drugs take you...

TRENDS

   

 All about fitting in (ego)  I just stick with the basics for the most part.  I'm a T-shirt and jeans kinda guy and that's about it.  Not a fan of sports or much anything else that involves mass noise pollution. 

Yes it is a boring  picture I am painting but there is so much more to myself than that anyway.
I know who I am on the inside, that has never changed.

I don't need the NIKE swoosh or Reebok brands. Whatever fits in with society? 

It is all everyone else's problem.
Why worry about fitting in?  I fit in myself just fine.
Don't you see, the world and life around you has very much, changed who you are?
You don't even know who you are,  do you?    Isolation: Ego
Take a trip back in your mind.  See where it has all changed.

Reinventing yourself; It's about time!