Each one of us is a subjective instance of observation, made out of the whole, other people’s influence, and the laws of our universe.
Essentially, almost nothing is ours; everything we are made of existed before, and the ways we are molded into individuals are shaped by forces beyond our reach. The only thing that seems to be truly ours is the pure being/existence. Still this is the core ingredient that we share with everything else that is conscious.
We are just a viewing angle of the whole, a monad, observing a part of existence through the tools we were given by the whole.