Who Am I?

Who are you?..... a doctor, a teacher,a housewife, a mother, a father? Is that who you really are or they are just the labels we as humans have to function in this world. We generally identify ourselves with our physical form. When we look at the mirror we just see our body but there is something else that makes us who we are.
If I have to make an analogy, I would say that my life resembles to that of  a tree. The branches I have are the different labels I show to the world. If one of the branches break, it doesn't mean that I stopped being who I am. My life continues and so do I. What's more, that branch can still continue growing, and take another form. For instance, if for some reason I am not successful as an enginner, I can still be successfull at something else. What changes are the roles I play in this world but my true self is constant,stable, and it is always the same.
When I start stripping away the layers of the things connected with the body, I go deep inside and start seeing who I really am.Within this physical being, there is my true self that we cannot see but we can exprerince it when we are in silence, when we mediate. This being uses the body to express itself, it uses the physical form to show the world what we are here for. This inner being or soul is our true nature.
We are more than the roles we play in our society, we are much more than that. Becoming aware of this can help us feel that we are not alone. When I am soul conscious my identy is derived from the worth of the soul rather than the physical body. We are not the body, we have a body. Think of yourself as a soul, this is your true identity, this is who you really are.