What makes a person

We are crafted by the influences around us. As children we quickly discover that to be treated well we must be somewhat pleasant, so we adapt a whole persona around seeking acceptance.

We then become somewhat jaded and less focused upon acceptance once we learn self reliance.

By the time we discover how unpleasant we can be we get lonely perhaps. Then we might make some effort at being more pleasant.

Our entire identity is based on the ways we seek to be understood, in the hopes of being appreciated.

Then if we get tired of repeating the process we might stumble into enlightenment and begin to recognize the folly of it all.

By then we must decide whether to remove ourselves from the worldly struggles that keep us in this perpetual loop, or stay to try and help free the other drones who sicken their hearts with self delusion.

In the end we stay for our own gratification, and secretly hope we are good enough for whatever created us. We look deeper into the mirror and try to reconcile with what we've become.

That's what makes a person.