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Do you think anyone can fully know who they are, or are we all just vibing and doing our best to do so ? Sometimes I wonder about who I really am and I can never be sure about it.

Are we what others people think we are ? I feel like this is a somewhat poetic way to think about identity, trying to understand who you are from the point of view of someone else. And honestly that's probably what "identity" is for almost everybody you know in your life: your best friend is one of kindest people you know, your ex is a complete asshole and this random passerby on the street is just that, a random passerby on the street, but all of these people have met other people who see them as someone completely different from what you do.

We can think this way to look at the identity has a huge edge case though: yourself. If you end up acting different around different group of people like I do, it doesn't seem like it adds up well: are you the dude always cracking up jokes at everything or the shy one in the corner, never saying a word ? Nobody is better at knowing who you are than yourself.

But at the same time, I feel like we could try and spin this vision around to make it fit: what if you are what you think you are ? I feel like it's an elegant solution. After all, who's better at knowing who you are than yourself ? You could say that everybody's identity is relative, including yours. Your own vision of yourself and the one that your parents have of you are both valid, from a different perspective.

I believe someone's identity is a kind of 3D object that everybody looks at from different point of views, and yours is as subjective as the others. Introspection and trying to understanding yourself is just looking at this identity from a different angle and gaining more information about who you truly are in the process.

I doubt you can fully know someone though.