Who am I? (philosophical version)

How would you tell a story in six words?

It sounds like a real challenge - impossible at first glance.
I challenge you to do it.

Hemingway answered this challenge after a good thought.

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

It's a full story. A sad one, yet a full story.

The simplicity from the outside and complexity from the inside is remarkable. It's like most things in life. You can find a bloody war looking into a microscope, yet all seems in harmony from afar.

Suppose someone asked me to tell my life story in six words. I would be very intrigued to meet that person. But, I can't.

This story needs all the words. This is a prologue to how I see my life.

Ready? Go.

We all tell stories to ourselves. Stories about who we are and the world around us. They are nothing more than our set of beliefs mixed with narrativity. We have gathered beliefs through our experiences. All with a stack of undeniable evidence showing us they are "true".

Sometimes, the source of our beliefs is clear, like water, and sometimes, they have unrecognizable origins. This always active system of inputs-outputs has two variables we can control.

• Our state (external & internal ).

• The inputs you consume. From food, words, sounds, smells, weather, social media...

Finding the difference between what I can control and what I cannot is the hardest part. Yet, from there, I see three steps. All is an infinite domino effect.

1. Learn - Who you are? What do you like? Do you like your own company? Where you don't want to end? Get to know yourself truly & honestly.

2. Discover - Who do you admire? How do they live? What has happened before you arrived? What would you like to be living? See all the paths and possibilities out there.

3.  Build - Your basic roadmap. Based on your true desires (not others' dreams). With the pieces you liked at the discovery phase.

History does not repeat, human behavior does. Behavior follows identity. Create the identity that will push you to where you want to be.
Write it down. Write your new story.

Stack your life with undeniable proof to say "Yes, that's me." Be obsessed with things aligned with your "new" identity. I can now write these 3 steps confidently. But, the truth is. I don't know what I'm doing.

At the same time.

There is such beauty in connecting the dots by looking backward. They fit like pieces of a puzzle when time is due. Trust in it.

If you take anything from here, let it be this.

It's a rollercoaster and there's no perfect roadmap. Remember it's the first time you're alive. I think we don't need to have it all figured out.

I'm rooting for you.

Thanks for being here, I appreciate it :)
Mateo

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