Feelings and identity

How are you?

It’s a relevant question, and one that we’re asked often. Sometimes people care to know the answer. Other times, it’s asked in passing.

Now then. Who are you?

Not your name. Not your position. Rather, the you that resides beneath these labels.

Pause to notice: it’s all too easy to mix up who we are with how we are. For better or worse.

But they’re not the same.

How we are in a given moment does not always reflect who we are.

The variable texture of the surface can mask the true nature of the depths.