γνῶθι σεαυτόν

Those words are written in the entry to the Delphi temple. It means "know yourself".

Who am I? Well, that's the big question. I've spent most of my live trying to discover the answer. And I can proudly say that, the more I discover about myself the better I feel.

I think that there are 2 ways to find happyness:
- Taking the blue pill: The easiest one is living without any care, just being said what you have to do and trusting in if you do what you are being told, you won't have to worry for anything. You'll only see yourself as they say you are. That's basically what Mark Renton said.
- Taking the red pill: Facing what other people consider as matter of fact, and discover the person you are by yourself. That implies don't trusting in everything you hear, and make yourself questions. That way will make you live in a world full of lies, but will you guide to a real knowledge of yourself. And once you know your real needs, you'll be able to control them.

I also think that, if you want to know yourself, you must also know other people. They way they are, will help you to discover parts of yourself.

Some time ago, I started to wonder why I write here. Why I put here my deepest thoughts. In a place where almost nobody knows about me. There are only 3 people in the world knowing the real name of the person behind this words. From those 3, only 1 knows about this blog, and that I don't think that person has some interest into reading this.

So, why showing my real me (my Ghost, as Masamune Shirow would call it) to people I don't even know?

A few months ago, I discovered a person and we became friends. That person was very shy, and never liked to talk about herself. But she had a blog where to writte all her thoughts. I thought that, doing that, she was balancing the need to connect with other people. Sometimes is easier opening your ghost to unknown people rather than the people you know.

So I discovered that I was doing the same.

That's how other people help us to know ourselves. Sometimes we see in the other people things that we can't see in ourselves.