What Am I?: An Existential Conundrum

Even as the title, What Am I? - An Existential Conundrum, sounds cosmological, there is a lot more to this as we tend to develop so many characters out of ourselves. Some inherent and some imposed. As we do so, we get surrounded by layers of personalities, most often leading to loss of the core, and eventually, we spiral out. While searching for an identity is very human and natural, are we really being ourselves? Does our identity lie in the past, present or future? All of us are into the process of 'Identity Search', knowingly or unknowingly. Let us see if our paths cross in the process...