Where's Waldo?

People say they want to find themselves. They move cities, move countries and make all sorts of changes to ‘find themselves’.­­ what is it really this fad of ‘finding yourself’, everyone if doing now-a-days? It sounds as impossible as finding Waldo. In my opinion, it is doing those things that you could not do before. Being free of your inhibitions. Free from judgement. Free from a previous life or surrounding. It is freedom. The state of being free. It is not the same thing as peace. You need peace to be free. But having peace does not give you freedom. You may have peace but not the freedom to do what you desire or be who you really are. To me, freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. You are who you are. No matter where you are. You are made up of the people that surround you. You are who you are because of everybody else™. Even though you believe you have ‘found yourself’, it is temporary. You come to this epiphany only because the environment around you has changed, not that you have actually changed. It’s just that you have a better understanding of your likes and dislikes, your wants and needs. You will always be the same person. Always have, always will. But how courageous you are to live your life the way you want to without being affected by your surroundings depend on the support you get from that surrounding.  The moment you go back home or the place you started at, even after you have ‘found yourself’ you are just going to be the same person you were before you went out looking for yourself. Nothing about you changed, only the surrounding environment. So there really is no ‘finding yourself’. You are always going to be the same person you always were.

If you really want to ‘find yourself’, are you ready to be courageous enough to change yourself and be who you are or who you think you are, no matter what your surrounding environment is? Are you ready to live without inhibitions? Are you ready to live? Are you ready to love? Are you ready to be free? Are you ready to be YOU?