What is Self?

What is self?

For those who read the title and said what the heck is this boi talking about.. This blog originated with a friend who asked me a simple question: how do I see my self? Simple, but yet profound. It took me into some serious meditation, weeks past(well months) & still I could not fully answer the question! I knew it had to be something more to it when a friend literally asks me the same question? Verbatim asking: What is self, explain destiny & do u believe that we have a self we are born with, do we learn it or did someone give it to us, how are you sure? So here is my opinion for those who are interested..

   What is self? Who are you? How do you know who you really are? Are you a product of  your experiences, environment, circumstances, situations, family, friends, country, media or are we divinely inspired, and created? Do we decide how we are? Does someone tell us how we will be? What make us who we are? the way we are? and even what we are? Where does it originate? where does it end? Does it stay the same? change? or grow? or is it concrete, complex, or just too complicated? Each answer gives a theory to the definition of the very essence of your being...

   To define self is like trying to describe the universe, everyone has a different perspective of it! Even tho there are many views, I know there is a truth that exist outside of what we see, feel, & think we know. To truly know who you are as an individual, there are two things someone could do to find out; 1) you could separate your self from everything everyone everyplace you think to be true, & bring your mind to a state of neutral. Then sort out & ask why to every preference, perspective & insight you have, questioning even you existence (which is virtually impossible), or 2) you could simply find out from the Creator that created you.

   From what I know to be true, us as human being are tripartite beings, meaning we are 1 person but we are currently made up of three forms (kinda like water)! We have a body, a soul, and a spirit! Our body is simply this flesh the human make up of our biology, anatomy and so-on, ya kno, everything that science teaches. The spirit however is what science can't explain, the spirit is the life force behind our body that makes it function, otherwise we are just dirt & organic, no more than just an element in the earth. (our spirit comes from God) "the breathe of life" . Now our soul is who we are. It is our personality, mind, and emotions, its what makes us..us! Our soul is formed and shaped by God who knows us before we are even born. He knows what we will be like, what his purpose & plan is for our lives. He has known us since the beginning of time. When, where, and who we would be born to & even what time. God has a purpose and destiny for every soul ever created.

   Now to get into how do we know who we are aside from every aspect of life. This can be complicated, because aside from our relationships with people & circumstances, its hard to define who we are, example; a slave only knows he is a slave in relation to his master & his environment but if you remove the chains the whip and the master, who is he now? no longer a slave? or is he still one in his mind?. Relating this to characteristic of my personality, I would have to compare myself to someone else. I could think I'm confidence but compared to another person I could be arrogant. What makes me confident to someone, compared to another, I could be insecure. So the question is who am I originally & what is the standard that we judge by?


   As people we are like seeds. We are born from a certain type of tree, to produce a certain type of fruit or leaf. Our soul is the seed. In life we are put/planted into environments/soil that affects how we grow, mature, even retard. Likewise, when we begin to sprout, many factors shape how our branches form; how big, strong, & healthy we become, & even our color, stature, and more are all shaped by this system. At the end of the day we are still the same seed that was put into the ground to produce that type of tree. There is no other tree in the world like us, maybe the same type but not identical. This is a metaphor to who we are as people, born as God destined souls into the world as seeds, but shaped and formed by our environment, culture, family, and much more. This is all according to Gods plan but this never changes who we are originally, but adds, grafts, prunes, even severs away limbs through our experiences.

   To be able to describe yourself down to a T is extremely difficult, because we seem to be different people around different people, also we constantly grow, shed, & mature. Who I am now is not the same person I was last week.  Your true identity is like a face. We may seem to be different people in response to alternate circumstances, people, and situations, but these are merely our facial expressions. We are still one face, but people have a different view of your faces. To some your ugly & others beautiful. Is how u see your self based on societies view, your cultures, or those close to you? The truth is we can't see our face! The only way I will know how I look is if someone tells me or if I look into a mirror. The problem is people lie, don't know truth, & standards are just off, even mirrors can be blurry, distorted,fractured, dim & spotted. So who can i go to, where can i look. The truth is, the bible is my mirror & Christ is my answer. To answer the question how I see my self is the way God sees me & he sees me who I will be and not who I am, therefore it's a progression of self view. There are too many influences that affect my view. Even my own sight is fallible, my vision is not 20/20. Its tainted by my limited knowledge & experience. But God has been here from the beginning & He knows all & sees all. He is, was, & will always be! He created me, so to know what i was created for, why i was created,& who i am, i would have to get to know Him.