What do you feel when you say I? After thinking about that for some time the next question would be “who is the one aware of yourself?” Most people would respond by saying “me” but in the same way you can’t look into your own eye without using a mirror, and fire cannot burn itself, there’s a separation between the observer and the self. Someone gave you a personality, nationality, and a belief system that became the role you play. The book Paradox is a collection of thoughts that simply shows the process of de-conditioning from everything you thought to be true about yourself and the world. It begins by explaining the difference between ourselves and the image we have for ourselves, and how you may not be the you, that you always thought you were. It includes what happens when you decide to not identify yourself with the masks you wear and the consequences of wearing masks. Paradox is a mixture of poetry and eastern philosophy discussing identity, love hate and desire, overthinking, and conditioning. By the end of reading Paradox, it is decided by the reader what the book is about. For some this book may be taken literally, or it could be motivating, depressing or even just a story of what it would be like to wake up as a different person. Everyone lives in a reality of their own and in the same way, so is the meaning of Paradox.