When do I get to be me?

The drive to ask ourselves, 'who am I?' Is so deeply apart of who we at the root of our soul that we frequently look into our past and future for answers. We wonder how our past is influencing us. We wonder who we will become and what we might do that will define us. While interesting, looking behind we frequently see choices not made or already taken, and while looking ahead we see them yet to be made. In either case, any of it is little likely to have been fully thought out. In our pursuit of who am I, we have forgotten one word. Now.

Who am I, now?

If we can turn away from backward and forward glances and look inside, Now. We then are often confronted with choices we can make about who we are. We do this frequently by assigning value judgements on who we think we are, because we are still looking around us. That will most definitely, not, be who you are. You may feel you can not touch, grasp, or feel who you are. This is OK because it's you making a choice.

You've looked around and decided that what you saw, felt, and understood is not you. If in that very moment you can pause and say to yourself, ' I am not my past, I don't see the future; so what do I see? I see me now. I just am. I cant help it, i just am. NOW.'

And just being who you are, is OK. You. You are you, and it is OK. Now, at a peaceful moment you can consciously look at new now moments and ask, Is this who I am? If you decide it is not you, it now does not have to define who or what you are. More choice, more now.

So remember. The past and future does not have to define you. It is the choice you make about yourself now that matters.

The when of who is always going to be now.