Who are you?It's difficult sometimes to define ourselves, maybe because who we are is such an unfolding concept... the more we learn, the more we grow and change... and I am curious as to how others define themselves...
So... who are you... and what makes you who you are?
There are obviously no right or wrong answers to that question, and we aren't grading here... just a curiosity about what defines us as people... (from our own perspectives, not someone elses)
6 comments:
I don't define myself by WHO I am ie; wife, mother, etc. I tend to describe myself in words ABOUT me and what I love. What my passions are. What I DO. Animal lover, spiritual soul searcher, love to read.
Funny, when I wrote my profile for blogger I was just beginning to explore who I REALLY am. I used all those words to describe myself. Mother, wife, grandmother. I have never changed it. Maybe I should think about doing that.
You know, who I am seems to be changing all the time! Two years ago, "artist" wasn't anything in my definition of me - now it's what I think of first. Funny how that happens all the time, isn't it? :-) Silke
Life is a journey and I'm a work in process. I'm a lover of mixed metaphors - lol.
Seriously ... I am
A child of God, striving to use the talents he has given me for good;
A wife who has given more than 50% in our 40+ year marriage (and I hope he feels he has done likewise);
A loyal friend;
An artist and writer who is striving to grow in my art every day.
I guess I'd have to second both Silke and Carol's answers... they fit both for the recent thinking of myself as an artist and for defining myself by what I love, do, or am passionate about.
So glad to have found your blog from Carol's.
You know, personally, I have been someone's mother, someone's wife (albeit ex), someone's daughter, someone's whatever for so long, I think I have lost myself in that. Maybe that is why I am working so much at trying to define WHO I am to me, I've never had the time to do that before, I've been too busy being something to someone else.
I envy you guys who define yourself as an artist... (and welcome Whytefeather... I'm so glad you've found me too!), I really want to define myself as one, but I just don't feel that I am. Yet.
But, as Eileen says... life is a journey, and I, too, am a work in progress... so who knows what I will find, and become, in this adventure?
This is a good question for me right now. I've struggled with feeling unwell this year and it's just this last week that I have decided that the "me" I have become is not me. I'm fighting for the real me back. I am strong, I am kind, I am shy-but brave enough to be friendly to strangers, I am creative, I am perseverant. I'm also starting to look at who I want to be and I have not quite figured that part out- but in the process I've also learned that I am a planner :)
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