An Identity Hard to Confirm

Confirming one’s “identity” is an extremely difficult process. Whether one is heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or somewhere between the two, the attempt to confirm exactly what kind of identity one holds is a painful yet wondrous experience. The process is as strange and astonishing as an aquatic creature gradually evolving to live on land. The reason it’s so hard to judge — or rather, the source of our distress — is that the responses we produce are almost always reflections of our outer self, and it is precisely within that outer self that a “true self” can scarcely be found.