Was speaking, briefly, this afternoon with several colleagues. I made a comment about how, several years ago, I had come to the realisation that I no longer knew who I was, I’d lost my own sense of self because I had tried to change to fit in with the people around me at the time.<\/p>\n
I scares me sometimes how readily we, or I used to, feel the need to fit in with those around me even if over time once sense of self is somehow diminished. The problem is this isn’t a sudden transformation, but rather it’s slow, gradual the sort of thing that happens over a long period of time until your forced to confront who you are, who you were, who you think you are and who it is you want to be.<\/p>\n
Anyway that little conversation I had earlier with Chris, Sarah and Lucy reminded me of something Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois de La Rochefoucauld<\/a> once wrote: <\/p>\n \nWe are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Was speaking, briefly, this afternoon with several colleagues. I made a comment about how, several years ago, I had come to the realisation that I no longer knew who I was, I’d lost my own sense of self because I … Continue reading