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Identity and Expression

The echo of your soul

By John Ames BirchPublished 5 years ago 3 min read
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From you and me to we

Expression takes on many forms, through colours and fabrics we choose our outward reflection based on inward introspection. We look within to our core, a kaleidoscope of feelings, thoughts, and dreams to see ourselves. From our hearts to our hands and down to our feet, we are born to move, to express who we are and claim that expression.

Each aspect of identity builds our minds and bodies in evolution with our inner selves, our souls. We, over the course of our lives, evolve as we come to learn about who we are, and grow in our identities.

Identity, this word, means more than your name or your portrait, who you love, or which flag you live beneath. It speaks to your core, to the potential of who you are. Identity is the echo of your collective expression, your soul screaming outward to be heard, to be felt, to be known.

Each identity is sacred, yours just as sacred to you as mine as sacred to me. Similar hopes and dreams with subtle nuances wrapped in beauty. The only person who can tell you who you are, is you. Your identity evolves as you live true to that expression, when you listen to your soul.

The collective expression of memories and experiences entangled with love. A love so profound it cares not for whom you love as long as you love, and that love is shared, respected and understood. A love that connects us all to one another, a love that defines identity.

Within identity lies the potential of the future of the individual and of the collective. Our collective soul, our humanity, answers the call of our identities as it envelopes us all in more than just definition. Each individual adding to the collective expression of our people. The rhythm of nations flowing together in beautiful creations of our imaginations. Creating these biological entanglements that connect us in voice, in spirit, in song and in identity.

Your purpose of this life is to find your gift, identify it within yourself and teach the world to see it. Not just a passing glance but a learning, a knowing, through living and seeing, but most importantly understanding. We must each honor ourselves by living and being who we were born to be. And we must honor one another when we have the courage to identify ourselves.

As long as there is love and identity, there will always be community. A community of people living together, understanding together, and identifying together. Through the contributions of ourselves we express collectively, a unified voice of our people. At times we may not agree with each other, or see past our own points of view, but we together evolve and grow. We change that expression, that voice, to include not only ourselves, but others with their own unique expressions. Through this we evolve the definition of identity and what it means, not only to ourselves, but to each other.

Through identity we learn to understand ourselves; when we know who we are, we can recognize familiar chords in the songs of others. Through identity we learn our chorus—in living our truth we begin to sing it, and as our voices harmonize we begin to call the future into today.

Through identity we know, through knowing we speak, through speaking we teach, and through teaching we learn. Through learning we can finally start to understand each other, when we truly understand each other, when you and me finally become we, the stars themselves won’t dare hold us back.

“You either create a world for everyone or else you will end up in a world fit for no one.”

John Ames Birch

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John Ames Birch

Hello all I’m just an everyday person taking a introspective look at myself and the world. Trying to help anywhere and everywhere I can.

“You either create a world for everyone or else you will end up in a world fit for no one”

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