An identity of one’s own

In the eternal universe, every human being has a one-off chance to live---his existence is unique and can’t be renewed, for the mold with which he was made, as Rousseau said, was immediately broken by God.

Fame, wealth and knowledge are merely worldly possessions within the reach of anybody striving for them. But your experience and feelings about life are your own and not to be shared. No one can live your life over again after your death. A full awareness of this will point to you that the most important thing in your existence is your distinctive individuality or something special of yours. What counts is not your worldly success but your peculiar insight into the

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meaning of life and your commitment to it, which can add luster to your personality.

It is not easy to be true to oneself and show what one really is. Many a person in the world can be easily identified, for you can take his job, his status or his social role as his identity, which has nothing to do with the person himself. It does do him justice to say that he has no identity of his own, if he doesn’t know his mind, has to follow others’ advice or let others arrange things for him; if his life, always occupied by external things, is completely void of an inner world. You won’t be able to find anything,

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whether his brain or his heart, that truly belongs to him. He is, indeed, no more than a shadow cast by somebody else or a machine capable of doing work on orders.