Without knowledge of your ancestors, you become like a tree with no roots

 "I think, therefore I am. But who am I? Am I only what I think? Am I only the one who thinks?

These days, there's a lot of confusion between our personality and our identity. And yet, the word personality comes from personal, meaning that which is peculiar to our person, while identity gives identical, meaning that which is similar in every way to something else. So why do we insist on thinking that it's the character traits of our personality that constitute our identity?   Could this be an implicit and unconscious acceptance that we are not the only human beings to think, speak and act in such or such a way? If we had the opportunity to meet the members of our family tree up to 7 generations back, we'd quickly realize that what we believe makes us unique was in fact already present in our ancestors. And that's where our true identity comes from. We need to understand that what "I am", I am because I am identical to my ancestors. That a long chain links me forever to my roots. And that the story I am writing today is a continuation of the story that made my existence possible, and of which I am the result in the present. Everything else does not belong to us. That's why tradition teaches every human being to take the path of their ancestors. Because any other path is a dead end and can only lead to someone else's home. In the same way, adopting someone else's attitude means accepting to be conditioned by others, to the detriment of one's own values. So, to the question, "Who am I?" I think, therefore I am (following) the path of my ancestors.