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In Search Of Reflection
reflections in the mirror of identity
Originally submitted on Vocal Media for the Identity challenge
I don’t think we ever discover who we are.
Identity is a never-ending book that continues to write new chapters as we experience life, and your story only ends when the pen is set down. When your story reaches a close, only you can describe everything. But there’s no one word to sum up the life you lived and who you were. Others can title your story as they please and leave reviews, but you wrote every word of your story. So, on that last page, who do you think you’ll be in your story? Did you become this person, or did you let this character you wanted to be, define where the story was headed?
You’ll probably never find out, and the book you wrote is slid onto a shelf to collect dust with others.
Maybe the book you write is more important than others, and readers will continue to grab it off the shelf.
They’ll form their ideas of your identity from the life you led, but only you knew who you were.
Wouldn’t you?
So, who am I? Well, I’ll never know. But when I was younger, I did try to find out.
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