Journal of Information Security Research Masa Urbancic 9 4 2018 http://www.dline.info/jisr/fulltext/v9n4/jisrv9n4_3.pdf There are moments in most people’s lives when they feel more or less themselves. This experience is usually caught in people sayings that they need to find themselves or just be who they ‘really are’. The purpose of this paper is to provide an explanation for these feelings of authenticity. I first explore this concept and consequently introduce necessary conditions for the phenomenological experience of authenticity. This is followed by the examination of two problems that authenticity faces and two possible ways of explaining the experience of authenticity, which are discovery and creation. I then assess three discovery views and show why they are unsatisfactory in explaining feelings of authenticity. In response I then provide my own creation model of authenticity, which argues that feelings of authenticity are a result of a convergence between our current and ideal self. In this sense, authentic self is created. What we are is a matter of choice.