Know Thy Self - If You Have One!

Self. What is it? Does it exist? Should we know it, and be true to it? Is it, as some tell us, just a fiction, a useful delusion? Or is it the essence of us? Essential?

If we do have a self, I think it's best to be ourselves, to the limit. To be ourselves as much as we can be ourselves. No sense in trying to be someone else.

But just like everything else in our lives, this "self business" is sort of a mystery. A question without a clear answer. Something we must decide for ourselves, that is, if we have selves in which to do the deciding!