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How do you find your real self?

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This is how I see it:
When we consider and reflect upon Nature at large, or the history of mankind, or our own intellectual activity, at first we see the picture of an endless entanglement of relations and reactions, permutations and combinations, in which nothing remains what, where and as it was, but everything moves, changes, comes into being and passes away. We see, therefore, at first the picture as a whole, with its individual parts still more or less kept in the background; we observe the movements, transitions, connections, rather than the things that move, combine, and are connected. This primitive, naive but intrinsically correct conception of the world is that of ancient Greek philosophy, and was first clearly formulated by Heraclitus: everything is and is not, for everything is fluid, is constantly changing, constantly coming into being and passing away.

or, don't make any plans you're fucked anyway!
Er is that a joke? dunno
It just means that things are in a constant state of change.

Yes, in a macabre kind of way. We may make plans but we cannot control events, isn't that what you're saying? OK the outcome may not be as I said, one of us may win the lottery, but equally we may win the lottery and in our excitement walk under a bus.
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so the concept of "finding oneself" is not really about arriving in a point that will remain fixed! Hope that's clear.

If you're right, and I'm an intellectual dwarf, (which must be how I can "think" myself under a bus), then it's a tough outcome always to be chasing the dream. Like trying to find the soap in the bath, you can hold it for a second only and it's gone.
I might get maudlin (sp?) if I carry on.