In response to Courtney's question

So, do you think that it is possible for a person to go about their life and never really know themselves fully?

I do believe people can go through life never knowing themselves fully. I believe that MOST people never get the chances to fully know who they are because they might give up easily and never live up to their potential. Sometimes people can go through their whole lives and not until the last few years they figure out who they are. Yet other people spend their lives trying to be something they are not and could be blinded by this distraction of an idealistic "them". Some people might start asking questions early in life about who they are and what they want out of life, and spend their whole lives searching through and through who they really are, and might find their answer and might not.

Do attachments and comfort from materialistic things hold us back from getting things we really want sometimes?