FIND YOURSELF

Who dares

Who dares to look for yourself

Along your journey

Who dares to challenge fate

What will you find

A word to the wise

Who are you really

Your image of yourself

Or their image of you?

Which are you?

So go

Look for yourself

Perhaps Carl Jung was right insisting you confront your anima

The opposite leads to one’s self

Or simply Decarte’s “Cogito ergo sum”

Or Occam’s razor is the simplest solution

Question yourself starting with advice of Socrates

Poor Socrates, perhaps his questioning in searching got the best of him

Perhaps he found self knowledge and virtue much too much to handle

Or did he just hemlock dive his search of himself

Plato offered keeping the search for one’s other self  was best kept to actual matter

Perhaps begin your self search with Aristotle’s tabula rasa

Shakespeare William Shakespeare's plays frequently explore themes of self-discovery and personal growth, demonstrating how individuals grapple with their identities and  Look for themselves judging success thru self indulgence and  adversity

His Hamlet being the best character for finding one’s self

We spend our lives looking

Looking for something

Searching hear and hither

Find yourself young man

We are instructed

With nary an instruction as to how

Look everywhere

Let your instincts be your guide

Leave no stone unturned

For once finding yourself

Hugging

Confronting your self

Is your goal in life

For to find one’s self is a happy journey.

complete your journey

To bring you two or three or more

Together to pursue being

And those that do find theirselves

Is it always a good finding?

Finding one self for looking in the wrong places is a work in frustration

Yet isn’t the ultimate conclusion to seek and you shall find?

Find who, what, where, when, and  maby.

Without hesitation

Do it

Pursue it

Get busy

Get busy

Keep looking soul, searching.

Find yourself in the act of searching

Find yourself at peace in your search.

Recognize yourself when found

Be whole againo

One with yourself embraced.

Rejoice

Rejoice

For you are found

tom tenbrunselo

Carl Sandburg Writer 2023

Author’s Note: Ask yourself was this poem written for you or one or two of both? How, when do you know? Follow your instincts. And so what happens when you find yourself or find the wrong self? Huh? What ?