Identity Crisis

At some point in everyone's life, they go through an identity crisis. What happens, is they start to ask questions that are detrimental to their growth.

Who am I?

Who should I be?

Am I heading in the right direction?

Everything in life happens for a reason. I've met a lot of people who are afraid to ask questions in life, and that's a justified feeling. But is it the right way to feel about it?

Refusing to ask questions about life and specifically who you are, will stunt your growth. You'll find yourself at this place where you are lost and confused looking for the next step, when all you had to do was investigate further into the subject of you.

Never stop asking questions. Life is too much of a mystery for you to truly believe you have all the answers let alone being able to find the answers.

An identity crisis can last for a long time, or it can take place for a short time. It's all up to the person in question. There are two possible outcomes when trying to work through this. One is healthy, while the other can be devastating.

First outcome: You learn more about yourself, and become a stronger person. You ask the question, "Who Am I?" and you find substantial answers, ones that you can hold onto. When you meet new people, you know exactly who to tell them about when describing yourself, and your close friends become better people because of your identity.

When you know who you are, those around you will start to learn more about who they are.

Second outcome: You ask the same question. "Who am I?" But instead of answers you discover more questions and the confusion spreads. The confusion slowly turns to a fear that consumes your entire being, and disables your ability to interact with others. You then turn toward this never ending self-centered quest, that alienates all of those close to you. When you do that, you lose your resources to get through life.

Your identity is a very important part of who you are but the truth is, you'll never fully understand yourself. You're going to do things you never thought would be possible by another human being, yet you'll do it.

Every day you waste away trying to find yourself, you miss an opportunity to experience life as it has been given to us. Just because, you haven't found all the answers you're looking for, that doesn't mean you have to put everything else on hold to find them.

The trick is to live your life they way you are meant to do. Sure, you may not fully understand what that is, so live as you understand it and you'll discover everything else as it comes.