When you talk about your life, your talking about a sum of experiences, actions, choices, etc. It all boils down to a collection of moments. Your "whole life" is all of the moments you've been through. Who you are now-a-days would be the more recent moments, as defined by some custom set of parameters.
These are all useful constructs. Sure they're real, and true, but they only say who you are as a construct of a sum of smaller things. You'll think of yourself one way, others will have it slightly different, probably with a lot of overlap. The construct of "you" is essential and amazing and awesome.
However, it's not who you really are. It's a construct. And the problem is, you live moment-to-moment as if who you are is this construct. That's where things get messy, because this construct is a sum of many, many moments, and it doesn't fit as a useful tool when it comes to managing your moment-to-moment life.
All that ever exists is the moment. You are right here, right now. No matter what you do, where you go, etc, you will always be right wherever you are, right in that moment. The past is gone, and all you ever do is remember it in this moment, and the future isn't here yet, so all you ever do is predict it in this moment.
If all that exists is the moment, you cannot ever exist as a sum of moments. You can only ACTUALLY exist as THIS moment.
So who are you?
You are the space in which this moment is happening.
You are like the raindrop reflecting the world. You are the observer, the witness. You see, touch, feel, think, experience it all, and that ever-changing experience is WHO YOU ARE.
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