Do you feel close to yourself?

instead of asking:

how can i be more like them?

ask:

how can i be more like me?

how many versions of me do i occupy? where do they live? how do they grow? what will they bloom into? what rituals do they practice? how do they show care to others? what are they afraid of? what do they dream about at night?

A part of yourself is completely unexplored till you meet a particular person or go to a particular place.

It is six in the morning. There is only a free dog hesitating on the beach, a black dog. Why is a dog so free? Because it is the living mystery that doesn’t wonder about itself.

| Clarice Lispector, The Waters of the World