Many times throughout our life, we will encounter people through various situations who need to impose their way of thinking onto us. It starts out innocently enough. A wife goes to the post office and then decides to swing by the grocery store. Her husband calls her cell, and he is annoyed to find that she went to the grocery too. He questions her as to why she decided to go, and continues to passive aggressively interrogate her as to when she will be coming home. In this simple scenario that gets played out thousands of times a day throughout time, a soul begins to lose itself.

We all need to know how to hold onto our self. But if the majority of the population does not know their true self, then holding on when that soul is being threatened is nearly impossible. In order to be able to not be controlled or manipulated by the workings of someone else's mind, it is essential that a soul knows who it is.

When faced with someone else's expectation of you, you can then judge and use your rational mind to decide whether their beliefs are in line with your own. If they do not line up, then you get to hold on to your self, and they get to decide whether to accept that or move on.

Child, know thy self.