Finding Your Identity

Cleaning, sorting old files, I ran across a few things still seemingly true to me and maybe helpful to someone who stumbles across it. 

In a Psychology one paper from 1978, I wrote "Keep your mind fixed on what you want most in life, not on what you DON'T want." Someone said 'You are what you eat'. Perhaps more accurate is  "You are what you think". Fill your mind with complaints and self-pity. grievances and bitterness and you will discover plenty of valid justifications for this attitude.

"Happiness is not something you have; it's something you become. If you wait for something to be happy about before you become happy, you may never recognize it when it arrives."

Spoiler Alert: due to our being prone to the very basic, very human trait of "ME FIRST" , changing your life so drastically to this very foreign attitude takes time, like the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to a delicate butterfly.

I refer to a quote more recent:

"You are not what you think you are, but rather, what you think, you are."