A lot of people might say “Well, I have to prove it to myself.” But such a statement is nonsensical. There should be nothing a person needs to prove to his or her self unless this self is actually someone or something separate from who one is; in which case this self represents nothing other than an entity that one is alienated from. A person who is content with him or her self should have nothing it needs to prove to itself. Such a desire only reveals the sense in which a person has no sense of who he or she is, and where, this “myself” that one is attempting to prove something to represents nothing but a displaced form of something external, probably a parent, peer, or society as a whole….