Never want to be nobody

Identity is very important for an individual. In everything that we do, it seems like we are striving to search for the identity that we are meant to have. I believe no one would like to be nobody.I find it very interesting that in real life all of us are trying to build up an identity for ourselves. As long as you still have the hope of living, you will keep on searching for your identity by building up one.

Definitely, no one would like to boast about their weakness and incapability. We never want to be weak but strong in a particular field in order to be outstanding and remarkable. Looking for the sense of self-existence and being significant is the common instinct of all humankind. I agree with the previous statement very much when I read it in the book of "win friends and influence people". We never feel good when our existence is not appreciated, we never feel happy if we are considered so insignificant. It is very interesting to see how those senses become essentially important to an individual, though those are not really considered as the basic need for living things.(air, water and food) However, this is one of the important needs that brings the hope of living for an individual.

Of course, we often see how hard the basketball players train in order to improve themselves so that they may perform well in the games. With all good performance, they can earn some sense of being significant. This happens to all the people. For instance, students study so hard in order to excel in the examination with flying color; the singers train so hard to be impressive when they sing! This is also very common in direct sale networking team building. They instill you the hope of great future that comes after your hardship and encourage you to be proactive and confident! They claim themselves as the dream seeker.

Besides, this happens even for those gamers who are not considered as the contributor to the society! They never want to be called as "noob" in a particular game, they want to be honored as the real hero and being significant in the team play! Drinkers do the same thing by challenging among themselves with the personal capacity of alcohol consumption. Even though they are aware of their situation where they may be risked of alcoholism, but still they need to prove themselves somehow.

This happens to a family as well. A  father feels being honored in his family as he is consider very significant as the financial support and family leader. The mother is given the sense of being significant when her effort of managing the home well got appreciated. As the sons and daughters, they will also try to satisfy their parent expectation in order to be given recognition from them. I have never seen a father being so happy for being incapable, a mother being so Satisfied when the home gets messed up, and the sons delight when they are scolded. That doesn't make sense. A question here: Is it the phenomenon that shows the instinct of humankind to search for the identity they would desire? Is it possible that one can live without bothering about that? About the sense of self-existence? the recognition? Sense of being significant? Being concerned? Or is it just a way of living in a world of relativism which never implies any message about the purpose of life?

I would come to believe that..we are looking for the truth of living, the purpose of life and the true identity. But unfortunately sinners refused to come in the presence of God, to look for the ultimate truth of living even He is the creator of human being. Romans 1:25 'because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.'

 It is not totally hopeless for human kind to get the truth even though we are dead to the word of God, because through the regeneration of Holy Spirit, impossible is made possible. Once He opens the eye of hearts with Holy Spirit and lead them into the truth in Christ, their lives would then begin to be purposeful and missionary as they know that they were created for the will and the glory of God and there is a purpose in the will of this awesome God. They are known as superstitious believers who believe in heavens and resurrection, but they are neither daydreamers nor visionaries, entrusting their faith in temporary matters for self-centeredness. True believers should be selfless as it is written in Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Instead of being self-centered, one who is saved by the grace of God should be Christ-centered.