"Most of us, at some point of our childhood, begin entertaining the idea of the self. In our society today, we’re told to be ourselves; as if it was as easy as that. In this process, we’re told we’ll figure out just who we are. To me, this is where things go wrong. In our desperate search for ourselves, we look for a stable entity. A “me” that we can carry with us and show the world.

We want to feel as though we are roughly the same as yesterday – stable enough to feel sane and normal, at least. The truth is, we change all the time. In many ways, we remain similar. But it is in the difference between “similar” and “same” that determine how free we are to truly be ourselves. However, for many, this is not the root of the true damage. When we reduce ourselves to this “same” person, that we can “figure out”, we naturally believe that others abide by the same rules.

This is my roundabout way to answer this question. We create images of others which we super-impose over them, limiting our potential to be our ever-changing selves. The short answer is that I like being free, some others would like me to be “Nat”."