The Search for Identity and Self-esteem


by June Stepansky - Date: 2007-03-16 - Word Count: 130 Share This!

Cocoon-like

I am an entity

complete and secure,

but what is my identity,

I cannot be sure

unless I am compared.

To a tree I am small.

To a snail I am tall.

To water I am solid.

To a rock, I am fluid

with motion.

I am

and yet what am I,

unless I am compared?

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We are not one identity, but rather many. We are husbands or wives, sons or daughters, parents, grandparents, professional people, individuals, friends.

One person assumes many different roles in his lifetime. This is really a source of strength. If one of our identities fails us through accident or loss, we still have all the other facets of our nature to give us wholeness.

Our excellence is not determined by one part of our nature, but rather by the sum of all of our diverse selves.


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June Stepansky is a published poet and writer who now has a monthly self-help web-site on the internet.
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