Who am I?

Who am I? Discovering who we are is a phase of self-discovery that helps us understand our values, dreams, and motivations. Someone once told me that I "am very reserved in expressing my opinions." It's possible I gave that impression, but it's not to remain neutral!!! The reason is simple—I want to hear the opinions of others!!! After all, understanding others, to the extent of their inequalities, is to live in an environment of support and reciprocity, as Franz Kafka said: "Solidarity is the feeling that best expresses respect for human dignity." Some say, and this is true, that we are a generation that dies inside but keeps smiling; we suffer in silence but pretend everything is fine; we live surrounded by people, but still, sometimes, we feel alone; we appear strong, but we crumble alone with our pillow. We are a generation more prepared to hide feelings. And that's depressing! Don't be sad when no one notices the good things you've done. After all, the sun puts on a huge show when it rises, and yet most of us remain asleep. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The surest way to succeed is to try, always, one more time." (Thomas Edison) We should all know that there are no immediate solutions. We must seek solutions that mitigate overconfidence or, at least, confront people with our perceptions (it's what's in fashion...) – after all, a perception is just a perception, knowing that people's satisfaction is much more related to perception than to understanding! "We must discover security within ourselves. During the short span of our lives, we must find our own criteria for relating to the existence in which we so fleetingly participate." (Boris Pasternak) We almost always attach what we know about people's bodies to what we know about them and then assume they are truly what we know about them, when they are very different and are more of what we don't know than what we do know. We must learn to resist this misperception. "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. They say time changes things, but we are the ones who have to change." (Anais Nin) But after all, "who am I?" There is a quote attributed to Clarice Lispector that, in our opinion, reflects the multifaceted nature of people and the influence of the environment and social interactions on self-perception: "I am as you see me. I can be as light as a breeze or as strong as a gale, depending on when and how you see me pass by." On the other hand, in exploring complexity and self-knowledge, Ortega y Gasset gives as examples: "I am myself and my circumstances, and if I don't save them, I won't save myself."