loyalty, commitment
social roles
family expectations
I need to show up
Conditional
Love
organization culture
work ethics
boss management
I need to perform
as expected
Duty
I need to gather
in one place
and find Me
in that haystack
of images
and role models
Creative Experiments and More 
You have addressed a very important concern. We easily become all that is expected of us and often lose who we are in all the daily mess.
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It is important to stay in touch with ourselves, though. Thanks!
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I like your take on the prompt… “I need to gather/in one place..” yeah.
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Thanks 😊
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So many things to live up to … sometimes it can be a relief to disappoint a little.
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That is so right 😊
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I like the idea of a haystack of images and models.
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Thanks! We are actually lost like a needle in a haystack.
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There are certainly many pushes and pulls that can interfere with our knowing ourselves.
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Yeah… some of us never reach there. The sense of self is created by feedback we receive from others.
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oh….. LOVE that last stanza! And the first two lead into it so well. LOVE that line, “find me in the haystack.” Well done! So glad you posted to the prompt.
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Thank you so much, Lillian!
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