As we continue to age, the idea of us being able to re-create ourselves becomes more of a challenge.
The older we get, the more solidifed we are to conforming to our own perception of identity.
In childhood, we experienced things quite differently.
As children, we had the ability to re-create ourselves at an accelerated rate due to our young maelleable minds and creative imagination.
If we wanted to imagine ourselves in the world of Harry Potter, we could do so effortlessly.
As we age, the creative imagination begins to fizzle out in most people.
As adults, we construct our identity within the confinements of societal structure.
How we interact with people, the people we choose to interact with, having to go to work everyday, and having seemingly endless responsibilities all conform to our perception of who we are.
I want to present those reading this with a challenge and the challenge is as follows: if you could re-create yourself or get another chance at life, what kind of person would you want to be?
Would you want to be rich and financially successful?
Would you want to live in another country to see what the culture was like?
Would you want to be an actor and movie star in Hollywood?
The reason I present this challenge is to get you to think about your identity and what your life would be like if you could re-create yourself.
As humans, we are creatures of habit - we can always find the same people going to the same bars on the weekends, hanging out with the same friends they have always hung out with, and doing many of the same things on a regular day-to-day basis to continue to reinforce the same behavioral cycle.
We establish certain behavior patterns and we associate these patterns with our identity, and because of our deeply rooted patterns, the thought of re-creating ourselves doesn’t even come to mind.
The process of re-creation is hard to fathom because of our deep sense of self.
With that being said, the process of re-creation is something that we can learn.
By immersing ourselves into new and unfamiliar environments, we adapt a new frame of mind.
Re-creating ourselves presents us with new challenges, new knowledge and skills to learn, and connects us to different people - all things that inspire personal growth.
In order for us to grow as people, we need to be able to adapt to new evironments, adapt to change, learn new things, and connect with new people.
We have to go out into the world, into unfamiliar territory, and experience new things
The new experiences, friends, knowledge, and skills that we gain by re-creating ourselves all become staples in our new profound sense of identity.
Humans were blessed with the ability to have higher brain function.
The process of neuroplasticity in the human brain allows us to be able to adapt to change and overcome new obstacles.
One could very well argue that the plasticity of the human brain is what has allowed us to evolve throughout the course of human history, even in highly competitive and primitive environments.
We are biologically designed for change and for growth, not only for the benefit of ourselves, but for the benefit of those around us.
If you continue to conform to the same established patterns in your life, you will only experience much of the same results and experiences.
By failing to re-create ourselves, we become predictable and our excitement of how we look at ourselves and how others look at us begins to dwindle.
The process of re-creation takes hard work and consistency, like anything worth having in life.
The product of re-creation however, is discovery of one’s true purpose in life.