Where is Our Identity?

[Lewis Almeida]

Dear Reader,

Another question might be…what does it mean to have an identity?

Most young persons and adults carry some form of identity. Such as school ID, driver’s license, drivers permit, etc. This paper or plastic card gives a description of what you look like such as color eyes, race, sex, weight and height but doesn’t tell us who you really are. The outside image of us and the mask that we wear is our presentation to the world. Our secrets, our feelings, our shame, our thoughts and beliefs are stored in our memory.
I remember a news report of a young woman who was a successful Realtor who just purchased a new Mercedes. She was filling up her car with gas when a young man approached her and demanded her car. The lady Realtor resisted and was shot and killed. This is an example as to what holds our identity. If our identity is into material things, such a car, money, wealth, a home, the clothes we wear, your apartment and the foods you eat; then, when these things that you are identified with is lost, stolen, or taken from you your identity too disappears.

So where is your identity? If the lady Realtor had her identity with her own intelligence, then she would know that her car can be replaced; unfortunately, her identity was in the car she drove and she was murdered for it. The education, the work and study that we present is how to develop a new identity through your own understanding. We all must know what we are doing and that you want to understand. This new intelligence is the active part of the mind that thinks clearly. It sees the truth of things and is not taken or swept away by superficial desires.
If the young lady Realtor’s identity was in a solid place, that is, within her own intelligence and that her life was the most important thing in the world, then, she would have known that she could have easily replace the car that was being hijacked. Her resistance and her attachment to the material had a deadly price.

When will you overcome your fear of the unknown and ask for help? Why not take that first step and find out if what we do is a good fit for you?
Lewis

[Scott Libby]

Dear Lewis
I want to thank your efforts in bringing us something to think about and consider. The idea of identity is new to me and it rings true that we identify with things outside ourselves.
Scott

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