Recently, a friend asked me this rather simple but incredibly challenging question... Who am I? Apparently I'm not supposed to take into account my ideals and principles... which makes answering this question an even more arduous prospect. Without my ideals and principles, I'm but a shell. A vestige of my commitment to upholding everything I believe in. Without my beliefs I am nothing. Our emotions, character, ethics, our interpretation of morality are all the symptoms of our ideals(not the other way round). We may not even realise what our ideals are and in fact discover our ideals, our philosophy and principles later in life as we get educated. And early adulthood is a journey to discover these. Our true self. Discovering our true self is NOT a frivolous pursuit. How can we live our lives without certainty of who we really are? That would be like living on the edge of our existence, never knowing exactly where the wind or the stream will bring us to. Yes... like a driftwo...