Authentic self

I think it's hard in these times to find an authentic self. A time of spin, peer pressure, hyper style, massive advertising and marketing, psychobabble, media influences, resumes and interviews and personal freedoms.

To do this takes attention and effort. But at some point the authentic self emerges and asserts and sustains itself. No longer are there pieces of the self generated in different encounters with the hope that they add up to the whole.