We often forget that we are human before we are professionals.

We often forget that we are human before we are professionals.

The whole lot of suffering comes from it.

And we risk losing ourselves. Forgetting who we are.

Then, one day, we wake up and find that the question that's been whispering itself quietly into our ears for a while has become so loud that we can no longer ignore it, 'Who even am I?'

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The search for the path back into ourselves is never easy.

We could do well to practice keeping our awareness that we are human before we are anything else before we come to the point of forgetting.

But if we didn't practice it - become the world always demanded that we don't - we ought not despair.

The path back is there, even if it's covered with all sorts of stuff that aren't us.

We'll find it.