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 from exploring, embracing, knowing, studying, trying, thinking, appreciating, loving even hating the other side or sides (to be precise). Just think for a minute. If I free myself from just one of my identity e.g I am vegetarian, or I am Engineer...it opens hundreds of doors for me to test, try and learn about the other side. My identity has closed these doors for me, and I have become the slave of the identities.

If I want to change myself to achieve something big (at-least in my own eyes) I need to break all these chains stopping me. I am sure this can enrich my life, experiences, and can improve life to something greater good. I really am finding we are slave of Identities just think about it. And let me know what you say...

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