If you were given the chance to become someone completely different from who you are today, would you take it.?
You would eventually realise that the person you were trying to escape from was actually worth becoming?
We don't discover who we really are until we are placed in situations we never asked for. Fear can make us believe we are incapable, while comfort can hide abilities we never knew we had.
What I find interesting is how easily people can judge themselves by what they see on the outside. We think the strong person is the one who never gets afraid, or that the confident person never doubts themselves.
Courage is not the absence of fear. But I see it as deciding to move forward while being afraid.
We like to think that we know ourselves. We know what we're good at, what we're afraid of, and where our limits are. But most of that knowledge is based on a life that has never seriously challenged us.
Put someone in an unfamiliar world, take away everything they normally depend on, and suddenly their personality starts to look different. The shy person speaks. The coward takes a risk. The person who thought they had nothing to offer becomes the one everyone depends on.
It makes me wonder whether personality is really as permanent as we think. So am thinking a lot of who we are is who our circumstances have allowed us to be.
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