Thank you for the insightful answers Shamou and ShiningLight.
Shamou:
You seem to be right--we are chaos-driven, to put it abrubtly. But mustn't there be something I can identify myself with? A certain personality, way of being and looking...
ShiningLight:
Yes, there must! And you are right, I'm not the kind of person to be held back by fear... I've studied Steve's articles on fear and I mostly agree with his looks on it--I've worked my way out of a lot of it. However the fear of others getting a bad impression of me still exists, and I suppose this has something to do with my 'faces' or masks, as Shamou puts it. Intellectually it doesn't matter to me if I have to change my entire life to uncover my true self, but there's some voice telling me that isn't possible--some form of hidden fear one might say.
And yes, definitely, questions can be answers, too--more often than you think, they seem to be.
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