About Me

Very wise teachers of mine once told me, "Owen. who you are now is not the real you, it is who you have become. You are more than you think you are."

Well this sent me into a complete tailspin. If I am not who I think I am, then who am I?

What does it mean, who I have become?

The more it upset me, the more I sat with it, the more I realised they were right.

I had never chosen to be me I had only responded to suggestion. I could not remember one single occasion in my life where I had chosen to react in a certain way or to have a particular outlook. It had all been unconscious habit.

I had never taken the time to decide what I wanted, I just took the best option available.

Then the true horror of this sank in. I was looking at spending the rest of my life doing things I don't really want to do. That struck me as a kind of prison.

So I decided to change. I decided to be more.

I decided to choose freedom