Who are you?

[sobrique]

One of the questions I've been thinking about recently, is the evaluation of 'who are you'.
How would you answer, if confronted by it by someone you don't know, at ... some arbitrary social occasion (e.g. not one where you'd answer in terms of your relationship to the hosts, such as a wedding).

What makes you who you are? Me, I think I have a large part of that as being my job. I define a lot of who I am, by 'what I do', and so ... when faced with incipient redundancy, that leads me to question that gap a lot. On one hand, I guess.... well, I've always been quite career minded and ambitious. I define a lot of my 'worth' by that.

So ... well, how would _you_ define yourself? The answer obviously has many facets, but ... what's the biggest thing that makes you who you are?

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[chess]

I gsve up thinking that individual things could define me a long time ago. There are quite a lot of things where if someone asked me 'are you a foo?' I would go 'yup' to. But I am, y'know, a person.

I have a range of interests and affiliations: a religion, a political party and various political leanings, a major hobby and several variations, some minor hobbies, a job, a degree, various aspects of a sexual identity, something of a cultural / geographical identity, an age, a race...

Which ones I bother mentioning / am likely to be asked about largely depends on context, but I think that list is currently approximately in order of their importance to me.