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Slavery to Identity??

  I got some free time today and then I started thinking... where am I in my life, what I want to achieve, what is stopping me from doing the needful and so on... a small note from Ikigai book triggered my thinking. It was explaining about Shinkansen effect. If you want to increase the speed of your train just by 10KMPH then small changes are required to achieve it. But if you want to double speed, you need to go to drawing board and think everything from scratch.  Hmm... and now I started revisiting about myself. I am not sure if I am on right track or not but one thing strikes me is I am associated with tons of identities. Like, I am Man, I am Indian, I am Hindu, I am Marathi, I am Engineer, I am Vegetarian, I am from xyz caste, I am from this city even suburb, I belong to certain school, I have certain political inclination, I like this technology, brand, sport, teams, cars, bikes, colors and oh my god list is never ending. Then, I realized all these identities are restricting me fr