One truth I have come to realize is the prerequisite for personal fulfillment is to know thyself. As I have immersed in my personal exploration, I find the journey can be expressed as follows:
Who Am I? —> What Am I? —–> Why Am I?
Who Am I?
Who I am is how I and the world see me.
I am a human, biologically male, and descendant of Panamanian & African American lineage.
I was born 58 years ago in the Bronx, NY, which makes me an American.
I am college educated, a military veteran, who built a 25-year career in business banking but now works in Climate Risk Management and Sustainability.
I voted democratic for twenty years, republican for 5 years, and independent ever since.
I could go on but by now I hope you see the pattern.
Who I am shows only the uniforms I wear.
Who I am is merely the upper layers of my being. To understand more, I must explore how I exist.
To exist, I need oxygen to breathe, water to drink, nutrient food to eat, clothes & shelter to protect my body from extreme weather, and so much more. Yet, I do not produce what I need to exist. Therefore, I exist as part of a greater reality.
How did I come to exist? How do I function as part of this greater reality?
I came to exist because my parents chose to have sex, producing a fertile egg that set off an energetic chain reaction of cell reproduction, which empowers me my whole life until the energy leaves my body at death.
The thread that connects how I came to exist with how I live my life is Energy.
What Am I?
I am Energy having a human experience.
As a human, I am learning what it feels like to be mortal.
This is important because Energy is immortal, therefore has no understanding of mortality.
What does Energy do? How does Energy function?
Energy flows until it collides with matter.
When Energy collides with matter, the matter changes to something else. This change is called Creation.
The power revealed by my human experience is we are capable of directing energy.
I exercise my power through the choices I make.
Accordingly, the reality of my human experience is defined by the myriad of choices made by all the participants in my life’s journey.
Why Am I?
As an energetic being having a human experience, I am empowered to direct energy to co-create the reality in which I live.
Therefore, the ultimate Why I Am is to decide what reality do I want to co-create.