They tell you to find yourself, as if you are some lost object waiting to be discovered under a pile of yesterday’s regrets. As if the truth of who you are is buried beneath society’s expectations, just waiting for the right moment to be unearthed. But that’s the great deception.
You don’t find yourself—you burn away everything you’re not.
From the moment you take your first breath, the world starts layering falsehoods onto you. Names, labels, identities, rules. They tell you who you should be, how you should think, what you should fear. The weight of all this builds over time, like a thick fog distorting your vision. Until one day, you wake up and realize you’ve been living someone else’s story.
And that’s when the fire must come.
The fire of questioning. The fire of letting go. The fire of tearing down every illusion that has kept you caged. It is not an easy process. It requires destruction. It requires facing the hard truths—the lies you’ve accepted, the beliefs you’ve carried that no longer serve you, the comfortable deceptions you’ve wrapped yourself in like a blanket against the cold.
But if you can stand in that fire, if you can let it consume all that is false, what remains is something pure. Something untamed. Something real.
Your essence. Your truth.
So stop searching. Stop chasing reflections of yourself in the expectations of others. Instead, ignite the flames of your own becoming. Watch the illusions turn to ash. And in the quiet that follows, meet the one person who has been waiting for you all along—yourself.
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