Hello, Njoku / @paoloscali, and welcome to Steemit.
Interestingly, I read another "Intro" this morning where the new Steemian also brought up the issue of personal identity. In response, I wrote that identity is, like life, very fluid, and that one of the worst things we can do is stick with a rigid definition of who we are.
Just as our identity is fluid, our essence is very diverse and again rather undefinable. Are we our body? Our mind? Our heart? Our soul? Of course, we are all of those, which are simply aspects of our grander being. To claim to be only one of them (or to overemphasize any one of them) leaves us with a false and incomplete sense of self.
As you stated above, we are a "unique blend" of various qualities.
Getting back to basics, I hope you find / make your way here on this great platform. Best of luck, and Full Steem Ahead.
Thanks for the beautiful thought and warm welcome... 'the fluidity of our identity' is such that with every experience, every new knowledge, and every new thought, we add to (and sometimes subtract from) who we were before them. Hence like the philosophical adage that a man never steps on the same water twice because, after the first step, neither the man nor the water remains the same. Simply put 'who we are' evolves every minute, however, in very unnoticed ways until it becomes too obvious to be missed.
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In other words, we are always evolving. Life entails that we are always growing, so our evolution is inevitable. Of course, it's up to us not to accept things as they are, and not to stagnate.
Essentially, what we are striving for is a "conscious evolution."
As you said, we constantly evolve in unnoticed ways. We will never be able to notice every change in our being, every growth, but if we can get a clear glimpse of who and what and where we are, we can also focus on who and what we want to become, and where we want to go.
Onwards, my friend, and while we're evolving, let's also progress Full Steem Ahead.
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