Whether it's your job; working from nine to five for all but two days in a week to pay for daily life. Maybe school, college or university; dealing with growing up and becoming independent whilst all at the same time having to meet those deadlines or get all those separate pieces of homework done and synced up to hand in on the right days. Technology and having the world at your fingertips; that impulse to keep up to date with what your friends and relatives are doing every moment of every day. Do you really need to refresh Facebook and Twitter every five minutes? Or maybe it's commuting; that daily panic and rush to get to where you need to be at the time you need to be there. Or possibly body image; we feel the need to cover up or change the way we look - our natural born body - with products and procedures to change our appearances. All these things and more are what life in this day and age consists of.
I know it sounds like I'm just having a huge rant at the world, but I'm not, I promise! My point is that when it is so very easy to get caught up in day to day life, it is also immensely important to just stop and get back in touch with yourself sometimes. Put everything down for a moment. Step outside, get away from the noise.
Who are you? You have a name, but who are you really when you strip back the mess of daily life? So many of us would have to think hard even to find an answer to that question at all. What is the raw you, the animal you - the real you who was born into this world however many years ago?
