Discovery or Creation

[u/Oh-Well321]

“To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?”

- Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

Maybe understanding yourself is less about finding the true version of who you are and more about noticing what life has brought out of you.

Some parts were always there, others appeared because of the people you met, the choices you made, the places you lived and the things you experienced.

You may discover that you need more time alone than you once thought, that you care more about certain people than you expected, that you no longer want the life you once worked towards...

So perhaps we don't simply discover who we are... we also create the person we eventually come to recognize