"And now, with your help Lord,
I shall become myself." -Kirkegaard

How is it so very hard--this thing of becoming ourselves? Quite early in life, it seems, a big part of our soul is forgotten...left behind, as it were. Shed like a snake's skin, we take on a weighty new cloak.

Perhaps this is why we need to be reborn as adults: to bury our 'false-self'; to become like a little child again, if we wish to experience the Kingdom of God in Technicolor...