Identity: How to be one with the stage

 Who am I is the funniest question of all time. It is clearly a very obvious one. But this question grasped the curious minds of centuries of people. Who am I? During my travels, I came across very many different ways in which answers to this question were found. The search for an explanation seemed to, not only captivate but engage, the applicant who was applying for an answer. Identity is not merely a message, a vibration stuck in a vessel, a consciousness, but it is exactly and only the thing that you, at that point, decide that it is. I like to believe that an person can use the concepts available to him to design its own unique identity. Such mastery of usage is extraordinary and precious. It reminds me of a theaterplay where an actor has different masks of identity in his possesion and he switches between them, without guilt or shame. The actor is not afraid that the audience will get confused as to who the actor is playing, because the actor brings them with him into the world of every mask, lets them meet every mask. And after a while, the actor's identity seems seeminglessly tied to the masks themselves, almost letting the audience forget that their exist a difference between him and them. Identity is the shell and inside is where life happens, it is the stage where the actor plays around with his masks. We all want to crack open our own shell and eat from the nut that is buried there and consists of many flavors, we all want to become that actor who gives his audience a true and pure performance, not because he is trying to incorporate and be but he is. So, how do we even begin the journey to be one with the stage, so that we can eat the flavoured nut?