Self Identity Essay

We spend our whole lives trying to find ourselves. We look into the glass, unsure of whether, like it, we are half empty or half-full. And this is our existence. In trying to solve this grand riddle, this unsolvable enigma of identity, what we are really attempting to do is to navigate the murky waters of social uncertainty. In this quest for acceptance, we build layer upon layer of character and deception. We are mazes with dead-ends, with false passages, with walls at every turn and no end in sight. But at the end of the day, we realize that who we are is inextricably linked to what we want. And what we all want most is something that can never be fulfilled through humans.
We try to over-exaggerate our desire with cumbersome veils of superficiality, hiding behind mass consumerism and popular culture and a million and one other ideologies and people groups, but at our core, we have the same words inscribed on the blackboard of our hearts: unconditional love. What we desire is to be loved: every ounce, every molecule, every minute cell
We are unable to comprehend fully this level of unwavering commitment that is required in order to embody the concept of unconditional love. And how can we be expected to? We live such fleeting lives that we are barely able to grab onto the coattails of the fabric of time as it rushes by us like a magician sprinting offstage to catch the white rabbit that has unexpectedly slipped through his hands.The once vanishing days morph into dismal segments that are now only punctuated only by nadirs of despair or zeniths of euphoria. It is not our days of normalcy that define us, but rather the rare occasions of glorious triumph or unmistakable