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You are the story.
Who are you?
The voice in your head is not you. The person observing that voice is you.
No one knows you better than yourself. But your self-perception and how you think about yourself can be deceiving, even wrong sometimes.
I want you to humor me for a few seconds and close your eyes. Without overthinking, start reflecting on yourself. Think about who you are. Think about where you come from. Think about why you are the way you are.
Open your eyes. What did you think about? Did you conjure a physical image of yourself? Did you like what you saw or thought about? Did you practice self-love, expressing appreciation and gratitude for who you are? Or were you hard on yourself, casting judgments, labels, and feeling despair about “not being enough”?
Processing how your voice described yourself is what it means to be the observer. The observer is you. And it ain’t easy sometimes to be the observer of your own psyche.
Now, imagine putting those observations into words and writing. “About Me Stories” is expanding and will be further exploring the most important part about Medium — the writers themselves!
