I have a journal that prompts me with questions daily. One of my favorite questions so far – Are you the original or the remix? This is such a fascinating question. If you asked me two years ago, I would have said that I am the remix. I even joked after intense surgery to reconstruct my collarbone in high school that I was Connor 2.0. Ever since that moment, I believed in my self-growth and that we as a species are always finding ways to improve on ourselves. Remix…
However, now I am not so sure. My belief about the soul is that we are always who we are. Over time, we just become more of who we were always meant to become. If this is true, we are discovering our truest self, not becoming someone enhanced by life experience.
My mind is thinking of a metaphor. There is a phrase about pressure leading to the creation of diamonds. I always used an internal image of a block of dirt that overtime and pushed under enough pressure would slowly erode away and become a diamond. My new mindset causes me to ponder the statement, ‘what if we have always been that diamond, and now we have just realized that we are.’
It may not seem like a significant difference, but I feel as though this mindset has the potential to change everything…
I am the original and will always be the original. I discover my originality daily, and one day I will be in sync with my true original self.
