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My mother always told me,

“Just be yourself, and you’ll be fine.”

But who is that self? And how do you find out?
Questions, questions.

When you’re searching for truth,

what you often find first are questions to be explored if not answered definitively. Your answers may change and grow from time to time.
“The unexamined life is not worth living,” said Socrates.

And behind that statement?
Well, that assumes you have a life to begin with.

That means you have to live life first in order to examine it.

If it is true that the unexamined life is not worth living,

then it follows that the unlived life is also not worth examining.
Aspiring writers and actors are often told, “First, you have to live.”

You have to have something to write about and experiences to draw upon.
Thoughtful and juicy questions may be one of the best ways to explore and examine your life to allow you to fully live and appreciate the life you have here and now, rather than wishing for some other place or some other life.

This is what you have. Now is what you have. Here is what you have.

Work with what you have.