R A C H E L
I think, and this is just me, there is no way to really know yourself. 'Finding yourself' is just a crock of shit. 'Being yourself,' however, is simple. Say there really ARE multiple sublevels of each individual. Whichever sublevel comes out on top is who you are in that given situation. Don't like it? Then change it. You have hundreds of options. I feel like a completely different person when it's just me and my mom, just me and my dad, or my brother, his girlfriend and me. Who I am only depends on who I'm with and the given circumstances. I'm at least twenty different personalities with my boyfriend, just depending on where we are, what we're doing, and who (if anyone) we're with. So 'finding yourself' is just refusing to deny yourself any certain feeling or behavior. 'Being yourself' comes naturally, should feel that way. 'Recreating yourself' is also possible through this theory; with practice, we can train ourselves to avoid natural responses to various scenario, we can force one single personality to remain regardless of surroundings and the given situation. So this is just me, right now, and there's no way to really know who I'll be in two hours.