Who Am I?

This question is likely the most asked one of all time. The search for one's id, lies in his ego. What is the ego? It's the part of you that you know and that doesn't always, and is never fully to, reveal itself to others. Nor does it need to. If you went out and asked ten of your friends, relatives and acquaintances, who you are, they would each have different opinions and give all sorts of examples to support their theories. None of them would be entirely right, nor entirely wrong. Parts of what they say might be correct, but what their ideas are, taken as a whole, would be incorrect. You are much more than what one person sees. Why? First of all, you show to some people what you don't to others. You are a different person on the job, in your family or among your friends. Your parent, likely your mother, or your mate, might claim to be the one who knows you best. Not so. Even with the closest people you trust, your ego keeps a part of you back for only you to know. Second of all, you need to keep your most private self, private. It's the place you go to and trust, where no one else can go. It's what you have created or that which has been created in and by you, over the entire space of your lifetime. It has dark corners and brilliant lights and flashes of colour that only you know. It is the real you. And it can change at your will. Events in your outside life, may effect shadows or lights that make your inside self or ego, go in different directions, if you wish, than before. How you behave, your id, will change if you want it so, according to what your ego tells it to do or  react. We are not something solid and unyielding unless we decide that's what we want. Blaming one's history for the good and the bad we do, is invalid. To say that it's the fault of one experience or another for making us what we are is pointless. You are in control, not your history.  A bad past, only stays that way if you let it. No one is at fault for making you what you are. You make what you are. The finger of fate points directly at each one of us. The past can make it challenging to dig out the real you that you want to be, but it can't be depended upon to do it for you. So why do we ask the question, who am I? Those who meditate, not that it takes a formal cross-legged position and cooing out loud to do it,  come closer to finding themselves in all the detritus life throws our way. As you pick and pluck amongst your memories and recollections, there is the real you to be found. If you do find what you are and work at being a new you. let it be kind and good and generous. Let it be  positive,a  giving soul. Let it give you peace and pleasure, pride in knowing it. Then shine.