An Introduction (sort of)

Who am I? An important question for anyone to ask one's self. The answer, however, is simple and complex within the same breath. In it's simplest form the answer is 'I am.' Period. I exist. Where the complexity comes in is with anything I attach to that statement. Or, and this adds even more complexity, if I choose to listen to or believe what you think or say I am.

I prefer the simplest answer. Because there is no argument. It is a fundamental truth where I will return within myself when I find that I have identified with all that I attached to my self. It is a place I can rest and just be. It also has the effect of placing me in the now. At times this can feel like it's smacking me into the now, especially when there is a part of me that has resistance and would rather hang around in the past or future. Anywhere but where I am. Yet once I accept it I can hang out and let my internal hair down. Relax in my own skin. The worries and problems of the world slip away and become as nothing.

You may not have known of my existence before this very moment, but it doesn't change this fundamental truth that I am. You may not like that I am. Hell, I may not like that I am, but here I am. I know that I am. Now you know that I am. No argument. We can argue all day, 24/7, about what I or you have attached to my self, but there is no argument that I am.

Here is another fundamental truth that places us fully on common ground. You can say the same thing. Every person in the world can say the very same thing. Everyone does make the same declaration. I am. The only difference is what comes after that statement.