I have recently become fascinated by the difference between personality and soul. This conjures up a barrage of questions, so here I am asking them to myself and anyone who reads me.
I want to know why I chose to come to Earth. Wasn't the Other World much better and carefree? Am I this brave soul who decided to live as a mortal being? If so, am I doing a good job? And what's this "I"? Am I speaking from who I think I am - this person defined by so many things, starting with her personality? Or am I speaking from my soul?
On this journey we get caught up in human things, like desiring material, physical, emotional, mental satisfaction in order to live like we are taught to. Conventions like personality, beauty, jobs, careers, marriage, family are just a few examples of types of communities in which many of us find a home. Is that not what we live for after all?
And so what do you do to feel human? To feel acceptable to societal standards? To feel alive? Covering your face with makeup, enhancing and hiding beauty and flaws. Dousing your body with Axe spray so that women will go crazy. Partying up your weekends, every weekend. Devoting your entire life to dance. Spending hours writing. Composing a song for weeks. A pinch on the skin as you awake from a good or bad dream. A rush of adrenaline as you jump from a plane, or tiptoe ever so close to the edge of the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland...
Aside from examples that could go on forever, what defines you? What does it take to be human these days? I would love to speak for all of us, but I can only speak from what I know - myself. Or to better phrase that: I can only speak from what I've experienced. To say I know myself would be unwise because if that were true, I would happily die right now.
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