What is my identity? What is the core that defines me? If I identify with all of humanity, then my core is as follows.
I am a sleeper, as I sleep and I dream. I am a thinker, as I have thoughts and I hear them in my mind. They differ and vacillate and sometimes take a sharp turn in content and direction, but I know that they exist. I am an eater, as I require cellular inputs to subsist; to not die. I am a breather, as I require air. Thus, at my core, I am a breathing, eating, sleeping thinker.
And I am no more than that. Every other aspect of myself... (read more)