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Understanding identity crisis: Why we feel lost while growing up BE KIND TO YOURSELF It has been a long time since my words rose gently from the very centre of my being — not merely as thoughts, but as truths waiting to be heard. The act of growing up, though celebrated, often demands an unspoken price: the gradual disconnection from the self. What we commonly refer to as maturity is, in many ways, the silent onset of an identity crisis — a profound, almost invisible shift in the way we experience the world and understand who we are. This identity crisis isn’t always loud or chaotic; more often, it arrives like a shadow at dusk — slowly, inevitably, until one day you no longer recognise the person you once were. Ideas that once anchored you begin to feel uncertain. Feelings you were once sure of now blur into ambiguity. This is the paradox of personal growth: the more we evolve, the more distant our former selves become. And with this transformation comes regret — a deeply human co...