Who Are We?

Only you can search for yourself to find out this question. Have you ever heard of Maslow? He's a psychologist that instead of studying sad people, he studied happy people. He created the concept of Self-Actualization. Which basically is being the best you, you can possibly be, but how do we reach self-actualization? Well Maslow lists...

EIGHT WAYS TO SELF ACTUALIZE

1. Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. Throw yourself into the experiencing of something: concentrate on it fully, let it totally absorb you.
2. Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
3. Let the self emerge. Try to shut out the external clues as to what you should think, feel, say, and so on, and let your experience enable you to say what you truly feel.
4. When in doubt, be honest. If you look into yourself and are honest, you will also take responsibility. Taking responsibility is self-actualizing.
5. Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular.
6. Use your intelligence, work to do well the things you want to do, no matter how insignificant they seem to be.
7. Make peak experiencing more likely: get rid of illusions and false notions. Learn what you are good at and what your potentialities are not.
8. Find out who you are, what you are, what you like and don't like, what is good and what is bad for you, where you are going, what your mission is. Opening yourself up to yourself in this way means identifying defenses--and then finding the courage to give them up.

We so often boost others up over ourselves... or maybe even boost ourselves too much over others.... We spend so much time thinking of others... and not in the good way! We need to accept that we are all souls trying to figure life out the best we can! We need to focus on ourselves and what makes us happy... which generally we can find if we also focus on helping others. Not dwelling on who's better, but dwelling on how to make both of you better! Who are we? Well I believe we're all brothers and sisters  sent here to love. We need to love ourselves and each other for what we are... and that's human!