94. The trees are the forest

Sociology teaches that each human has many roles, both inherited and created by himself.
We get inherited roles at birth, for instant, gender, age and race. We create other roles ourselves by marriage, having children, our ideas of faith, education and so on and so on.
But sociology teaches also that the roles can tell who we are and where. That statement is very interesting. For how can a role tell us who we are?

The roles are similar to trees. We often talk about the trees in the woods, about the trees as one and the wood another. But the fact remains that the trees are the wood and the wood the trees and it can never be apart. We know this very well even though our words say differently.
And as the trees and the wood are one, there is one role that is common to all other roles. A role we never think of and often forget exists. It’s the role of the I.
I am a woman or a man, I am a teenager or elderly, I am a parent, I am married and I am intellectual, specialist. I am something, anything.
The I is every role we can imagine and it makes no difference whether it’s inherited or created. If there is no I there is no role.

But that doesn’t tell us who we are, only what our roles are. Who are we? What is this I behind all roles?
If we say the trees are the wood and the wood the collection of all trees, we can also say that the roles are the I and the I the collection of all roles. We should therefore start by examining what a role is.
The role of a mother is for example the outcome of the experience of carrying and giving birth to a child. The role of the intellectual is the outcome of reading and learning to the trade. We can define every role like this.
The role of the I is therefore the outcome of the experience and learning, everything we have experienced through various events and reading and is kept in the brains memory. The I is in fact an old memory. That’s all.

Then the question is whether the I is us and we the I? If that’s so, we have found the answer to whom and where we are by examining our roles.

Who am I? I’m an old memory. Where am I? I’m in the brains memory.
It’s a fact that the I is just an old memory. Our own and others I are built up from our experience and learning, which is all the knowledge stored in our brains memory.
Therefore it should be obvious that our reality is not this I. We are something else and more than an old memory. For something molds and created the I for our experience and learning and puts it into our brains memory. Then the question is who is the being behind the image, the role?
We have all accepted the inherited roles, maintained and owned them and at the same time created innumerable mount of other roles without thinking about it, without any questions.

All roles have their origin in the I. The roles are the I and the I the roles.
It’s therefore obvious to approach the being behind the image we have to let go of the image.
We can do that by pealing of all we have gathered throughout our lifetime. Everything. Both inherited and created, both in fact and theory. Nothing left out.

When everything is gone, there is nothing. Neither one nor another. No thing. That is our core. That’s the reality of us.
Vise is the one who knows himself. Who are we?