Who are you?

What do you identify with, which makes you who you are?

I am vegan.

I am a student.

I am anti-Brexit.

Now do you know me?

How about a few more.

I am a yogi.

I am English.

I am a feminist.

Do you know me yet?

Do you know me at all?

From these labels, you don’t have a clue that diplomacy is one of the qualities that I love most about myself.

From these labels, you would never guess that I treasure uncontrollable laughter with another human, more than any other experience.

From these labels, you couldn’t know that the last time I cried was last night, watching This is England.

Yet, labels are what we desperately grasp onto, in order to know ourselves.

You don’t have to look far to see this.

Check out your Instagram bio, or Tinder profile.

Teacher, wanderer, mum, wife.

Who are you when you can no longer work that job?

Who are you when that marriage ends?

Are we too busy, to pause and ask ourselves who we really are, on a deep emotional level?

What do you wish you could still do?

What do you strongly believe in?

What are you no longer sure of?

What are you certain of?

What is a selfish motivator for you?

Ponder on that.

I ask you again, who are you?

Who we are is not outside of us. It is so deeply rooted inside our being, yet most of us have no fucking clue who we are.

If you had nothing, you would still be you.

And you are beautiful.