When I was young I was very imaginative.
10 Year old me: "I'm a Chinese Dragon of great intellect and shall save all of China from huns!"
Me: "okay cool, I'll RP as a Chinese Dragon of great intellect and cause mountains to fall to help China fight off the huns!"
10 year old me: " I'm now the arbiter from Halo and will kill all the Flood!"
Me: "I'll RP as the arbiter in a Halo RP and kill all the Flood!"
10 year old me: "I'm now a super psionic wielding crystalline sci-fi race whose body is made up of pure energy and wields crystal katanas!"
Me: "I'll RP a super psionic wielding energy race that wears crystal armor as a protective shield for their bodies and
wield a crystal katana!" (
@Brovo That's right, feel that cringe)
ect...
Another thing was that due to how imaginative I was, I didn't understand myself what so ever nor did I truly care on knowing myself, I wanted to be everything without care because of such. It wasn't until after Highschool til I started meditating and contemplating things like 'who am I?', 'What is my place in the world?', 'What is it that I want to do as a career?'
So the Scenario can look like this as well.
10 Year old me: "I wanna be a doctor. Now I wanna be an architect. Now I wanna be a game maker. Now I wanna be an FBI secret agent. Now I wanna be a CEO. Now I wanna be President. Now I wanna be a lawyer. Nope, I wanna be a doctor again! ect..."
Me: "No! What you want is to know who you truly are and what it is that you'd truly like to do. You spent so much time playing escapism and avoiding these questions through focusing on others that you don't even know who you are. Now go and sit at the corner over there, close your eyes and meditate till you answer the very questions you tried so hard to avoid."