STORY: Identity Crisis by Carlos Valles

Story title: Identity Crisis
by: Carlos Valles

   They tell the story of a really "bushy" farm boy from way outback who had come into a big town for the first time in his life. He felt completely lost among the crowds that shoved him around the stores and supermarkets. The outdoor vegetable market was open even at night and so when our farm boy got sleepy, he found a hidden spot under one of the tables and laid himself down to sleep.

But he had a problem: he looked like so many other people in the crowd that when he would awaken in the morning, how would he be able to find himself... and not mistake himself for someone else? So he bought a nice red balloon and tied it to his ankle and contentedly went off to sleep.
     A practical joker notice what the farmer boy had done and so after the boy was soundly asleep, he untied the balloon from ankle and tied it to his own.
     When the farmer lad awoke in the morning and saw his identifying balloon tied to someone else's ankle, he scratched his head in bewilderment and said to himself, "If I am not me, then who in the world am I ?"
     Do you really know who you are? How can you prove it?