Who Are You?

So I copied this off a blog. Check out the blog here. I couldn’t reblog it so copy and paste it is.

I don’t really know how to explain the content of the post so you can just read and understand it for yourself. It’s very inspiring though. Enjoy 😀

“Who are YOU???

So who exactly are you? That is a question most humans cannot answer. Hopefully, at the end of this blog you’ll be able to answer that question for yourself.

Throughout the ages, people that have excelled are people that know who they are. People that could define themselves. Academic excellence is a means to that end, which is why so many adult figures impress on the youth the need to succeed academically. However, success in school doesn’t automatically mean success in the outside world. School , all branches of it, is the train ride that moulds your views and ideals. Friends, family, enemies are a major factor in creating who you are now and how powerful your beliefs are.

YOU are defined by two things. Your beliefs and the people you around you. what are your beliefs??? It may seem pretty obvious, but it really isn’t. For example, some people support Abortion, others do not. Those are two beliefs. There is a God, there is no God. Those are also two beliefs. Some beliefs mould your life. Other beliefs are a result of a main belief. Men are better than women, Women are better than men. These two different beliefs are Topic beliefs (that’s what I call them anyway) and can define a human’s entire life. Some beliefs are harder to change than others. Some are deadly, some are condescending.

Racism is a belief system. In fact ANY form of discrimination is a belief system. Racism, Sexism, Tribalism are all belief systems put in place by previous generations. Some people are able to break the bond of a belief system, but you can’t simply delete a belief. It has to be replaced. So you replace racism, sexism and tribalism with one belief. ‘Equality’. Imagine this: A two year old kid is born into a family that is racist. They believe that only their race is the prominent race and call themselves the ‘High breeds’ and other races are abominations. They impress upon this child that his race is higher than any other race. And that if any other race should try and seek equality. they should cut them down. That’s as racist as it gets and sadly there are actually some families in the world that think like this. So let me ask YOU this. What race is the family? Instinctively you think oh they’re Caucasian. See what you just did?? That’s a belief. You believe that any body that thinks their race is higher than any other race is white. But what if I told that the family is black? or Asian??? Your belief system would find that very hard to accept, wouldn’t it? you might be thinking “only white people are that proud”, so let me as you this WHO TOLD YOU???? That is also a belief system brought about by racism.

Beliefs have a domino effect, once one falls everything else falls. When it used to be believed that men were better than women, obviously certain other beliefs would arise from that belief, for example; women are weak, women can’t fight, women don’t have the mental capability to lead a nation, women are emotionally unstable, blah blah blah. But the second the main belief was diminished, the resultant beliefs were also diminished. The main reason why men dominated women for so long wasn’t because men physically repressed the women, it was because the women were psychologically held by the belief. Once ONE woman broke the hold, naturally, all the others would follow, hence today we have Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel as some prominent world leaders.

Belief systems aren’t the only defining factor in finding who you are. The people that surround you play a role too. As a child you had little control over who surrounded. Your uncles, aunties, family friends were not under your control. In fact, some misguided children are as a result of the company that was around them during their early years. Education helps to reduce the impact and your beliefs can be reformed during the early years of proper education. Of course as you increase in age, you increase in experience and certain things appeal to you. Power, fame, hope, humility, wealth, wisdom, peace, war, destruction, control. As a child very few things appealed to me like music. In fact, even now the things that appeal to me now the most are music, wisdom, power, wealth and love. These five things are like nature’s five elements to me. They are my driving force. And they were formed by the people around me. My friends are the reason I love power, My family is the reason i love wisdom, my sister is the reason I love. There are very few people I love more than my sister. Nothing, absolutely nothing gets me angry like messing with my sister. I rarely get angry, in fact i don’t think anybody except my brothers and my dad have seen me angry. I know how people laugh and say that they would never catch a grenade for anybody, I’d do anything for my sister, I’d protect my sister with my life. Period. OK i think I’ve gone off point a bit.. Sorry. What was I saying again??? Oh yh, the people you surround yourself with define who you are.

Imagine life as a limousine that can contain 20 people maximum. Who would you put in that limo with you? As you start the journey, you start with your parents, and then your siblings, and then one by one you add friends and they add friends who might become your friends or might get pushed out of the limousine and they start riding on an okada. Eventually, as you reach the peak of your teenage years you start redefining your relationships AGAIN and start adding friends and start removing others. A time will come when you will look at the people around in your limousine and whether or not it’s full, you’ll think “These are the people I will spend the rest of my life with” and then you lock the door. No matter where these people go. No matter how far apart you guys get, whenever you see each other, the bond will reform and it will be like you guys never split. These people will define your choices, your choice of jobs, your partner. Yes obviously you’d have your own tastes, no doubt about that, but your subconscious will be influenced in some way by your friends’ tastes. That’s why you and your friend like the same songs and you’re not sure why.

Thinking back, our teachers used to say, ‘don’t let your friend influence you, influence your friend’, that is very good advice, even though most of us didn’t take it very seriously, we were at a stage whereby meeting the wrong person could seriously affect our perspective and turn you into the next Hitler and meeting the right person could turn you into the next Winston Churchill. If you’ve seen the Social Network, there is a scene where Mark Zuckerberg (the founder of facebook), meets the founder of Napster. That meeting is a meeting that Mark will remember for the rest of his life. It redefined him in a way that only he (mark) knows how. And that is how it will be for everyone. You will meet someone (or people) that you will never forget.

Now the question is how will belief and acquaintances mould who you become?? Well that’s a question nobody else but you can answer. (Yeah I hate it when people say that too). It’s your journey, it’s your limousine, and it’s you that will make the decisions. If you want to find out who you are, you’ll have to go on that journey on your own. It’s a journey that will see you line up against more than a few enemies, you will engage in more than a few battles, emerging from these battles as the victor is key to moulding who you are. Belief will mould your mindset, people will engage your mind. When correctly used, and in unison, they can break away barriers and tell you, who you are….”

Hope you were inspired. Cheers 🙂