Hazte quien eres

Do you have enough and leftovers? Are you for yourself and do you owe anything to anyone? Have they convinced you of your unique character and your lack of ties? According to the philosopher Jorge Freire, you have to give up such nonsense as soon as possible. Become who you are constitutes a demolition of the slogans on which, mistakenly, societies like ours build a model of a good life. Starting from Pindar's maxim "become what you are, as you have learned", Freire encourages us to profitably cultivate the circumstances that condition us. Taking hold of ancient philosophy and wisdom, the philosopher denies phantasmagoria such as that of the self-made man. Who is the sole architect of his fortune? You have to deal with your own circumstance, never against it. Jorge Freire, the most insightful and sharp essayist of his generation, questions one of the myths of our time, the happy "identity". It doesn't matter what we are, but what we do, because by doing things we make ourselves. That is why identitarianism is nothing more than a variant of narcissism: Worse than believing that you don't have a navel is spending your life looking at it. How to become what we want to seem? Through the exercise of good customs. In his opinion, those who take the nobility of habit for the mechanical vileness of repetition are mistaken. Custom, when it is good, pushes us to virtue.