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I'm a Bahai.
If you feel you are a Bahai, you are one. Welcome!
The next step is to find out what the Bahai life involves (daily prayers and reading the scriptures, and the annual Fast, for example, but also ethical and spiritual disciplines such as controlling your tongue, being honest, developing a spiritual attitude, abandoning prejudice). Becoming a Bahai turns out to be a life-long process -- but every journey starts with the first step. Wikipedia has a good article on the Bahai Faith.
To join the Bahai community and share in the Holy Days, community Feasts, devotional meetings and social life, contact your local Bahai community. If you are in the United Kingdom that's at
http://www.bahai.org.uk/
There are national Bahai organization in virtually every country where the Bahais are not persecuted. You can find a list of contacts world-wide here:
http://www.bahai.org/worldwide-community/national-communities/
There are Bahais all over the world, so if you don't find your country in this list, it is probably because you live in a country where the Bahais are persecuted, or at least where they are not allowed to have local or national organisations. In that case, make contact discretely (for your own sake) with one of the Bahai National Assemblies in your area or language group
Once again, Welcome! Don't be shy if you don't know much: learning together is part of Bahai community life, because it's a mighty big ocean you're entering, and because we do not have any priests or ministers or rabbis or 'alims to go to for answers.
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