Do you spend much time wondering who you are?

Question

You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

Answer 1

nope. i spend most of my time being who i am.

Answer 2

i read a book recently kind of related to this. basically its about how we all keep looking for "happiness" and "fulfillment" in things like money, power, and prestige.

even those of us who really believe "money doesn't buy happiness" are still anxiously awaiting a paycheck at the end of the week just like everyone else.

we know we can't find contentment in these things, but still, we seek them anyway. and even when we manage to get them, we continue to search for more, or for something else. we are always searching for something. we never stop because we never find what we need.

the funny thing, is apparently we don't even have a clue about what we are looking for, about what we need. so the only solution then, as he puts it, is to "seek the seeker".

you have to actually stop, sit, and actually take real time to come to a deep understanding yourself.

most people contend that they know themselves perfectly well, but he argues that if that were really true, you would litterally be "happy" all the time.

so yeah, he pretty much suggests that what you asked, we should do: "spend much time wondering who you are." "struggle with questions of purpose and need." "answers are found mostly inside."

i try to do it as much as i can

Answer 3

I'm too inconsistent to "be" anyone in particular....so I generally don't worry about it and just do what I feel like doing at the moment.

Answer 4

i spend a lot of time in trying to answer such ques.........i dont find any answers within myself.....fo eg. who am i?....what is the purpose of my stay on the earth......someone says....entity, soul etc.......but these things are far complicated than one can think......u can only imagine things...not answer them

Answer 5

No :)))

Answer 6

No as everything is clear.

Answer 7

Yes, all the time, and I guess it's one question we never can answer, because every second we keep changing in some little ways, so who we are keeps changing.

Answer 8

No,  I don't spend much time wondering who I am.  I am MishMash - a bit of everything and everyone.  I know pretty well definitely WHAT I am NOT.

I don't struggle with questions of purpose - I am here to serve God, not that I am good but there ain't no harm in trying.

I may struggle with questions of want as apposed/opposed to need.  hhmm

But I know who to ask for answers.

Answer 9

Yes, i do think but the answers are quite clear to me and i don't have to usually struggle.The answers are quite clear. I am who i am. Sometimes, i cannot be who i want to be so i stay contented or work hard. However, most of the time, I am what others wish me to be because it part of being me to want to be like others want me to be.  

Answer 10

No, I spend Too much time trying to accept who I am.

I struggle with surrender and nonresistance of who I am opposed to what others feel I should be or what I think they feel I should be...Ok, hold up, I just made my own brain hurt with that one...lol

Anywhoo, what I have realized so far is that...I'm ok.

That this part of my journey must be necessary...for a Greater Good.

Peace!

p.s. Im sorry, I'm sorta all over the place today...hope I answered your question.

Answer 11

No

Answer 12

nice Q.

well to tell the truth I used to do that a while ago...but now I entered a new era of my life where everything is about to change.

including mine.

love

Pluto

Answer 13

When i'm dead i'll look back and see who i was. :P

Answer 14

...no, my strong self esteem, and friendly demeanor helps me be involve with others and i find fulfilling projects to do to help me in life and my confidence...thanks for asking...

Answer 15

No identity crisis here.

Answer 16

If we are mentally free answers come spontaneously

Answer 17

yeah i think alot and i wonder about my identity but more so what i expect out of other ppl, and i can never figure it out...so mostly i try to jsut have fun and relax..i dont want to spend time thinking abotu wat i could be and be on the death bed and regret wat i didnt do , i want to be proud of who i am!!!

Answer 18

it takes a lifetime to answer any of these. but to go without the answers would be unimaginable to some. you can't answer a single one of these questions until after death, at the Judgement

Answer 19

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Answer 20

Yes, but I think who we are changes with time and experiences.

Answer 21

Yes, a lot. Sometimes the questions and answers are hard to discover. But I'll never stop searching within myself.

Answer 22

No not at all now as know who I am now and have inner contentment and found what I was looking for all my life, happiness within. Still have my difficult times as well as my good times but know who I am and have accepted myself faults and all.  The fears I used to have are gone, am not afraid to live and be myself, if people like me good and if not let them off away as won't have the negativity in my life. Have an inner confidence in myself and like myself.  That is the secret to forgive yourself for everything and just be content.  Great question. :))

Answer 23

Only my whole life, a harder journey than climbing Mt. Everest,

but worth it...

Answer 24

I just a Bum ....

That's all I'll ever be.

Answer 25

When I feel happy, I am there.

When I feel sad, I am there, too.

But when I forget myself, I am vast and invincible.

I go and back to these states with each passing moment.

So my answer is yes.

Answer 26

No I spend a lot of time wishing I could be the person I know I am.

Just to let my hair down once in a while, or have a wild Party. Anything really that I know I Would enjoy.

I'm just too afraid of letting go, I think I am safer in my Own little World.

I Know what I am missing, I just can't bring myself to

unlock the key.

Answer 27

I have spent more than half my life looking for an answer to this question. However, for twenty years or more now, I have been content with the following answer (only it's a bit to long to include the whole answer here):

"And that’s why I found Buddhism so inviting. s***w the self; according to Buddhism, the 'self' did not exist anyway. It’s all about suffering, or so said the Buddha. But the Buddha also said, ‘its all about escape from suffering too. What I didn’t understand, what I still don’t understand, though, has to do with the Buddhist notion of: ‘In order to get it all, you had to give it all up,’ and further, in order to give it up, you had to know what to give up and how to do it. All that knowing had value; Buddhism didn’t value the means like it did the ends. Something was missing, so I went back to the drawing board, so to speak, and there discovered a different kind of self.”  

Answer 28

not really...i can answer most of the questions cuz i find the answers from inside of me...from my mistakes..i learn form my friends..so i know wut kind of person i am.

Answer 29

Friend,

YES ,I USED TO.

Answer 30

Yes.Successful and remain in that state for hours.

Answer 31

long time ago i realized that the problem is the solution.