Who are you when all those labels are stripped of you?
Thats a great place to start. We often build our self esteem on things that are out of our control. Be it a career, a hobby, a relationship or a personality trait. But anything thats given to us can also be taken from us. Life has not absolute certainty and therefore I think we should strive to be grateful for what we have but keeping our egos in check. So that we realize that we're more than just a label.
A friend of mine was a straight up math genius and on track to become a professor at a prestigious university in europe until one day a disease significantly started to impact his cognitive abilities.
He then realized that he had nothing outside his cogntive abilties, and started gardening.
u/Ash_raf_00 — 12 hours ago