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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[purp1e-magic.livejournal.com]

The answer depends on context. In this case, the context is you, sobrique, asking me, purp1e_magic, who I am.

I am good person. I have convictions of what is good, and I try to live by those. I give all I can to the people around me, using my strengths and trying to work around and improve upon my weaknesses. I aim to bring pleasure, relieve burdens and teach by words, deeds and example. I know I fail at times, but I try to learn from my failures.

I am curious and love to challenge myself. I have a thirst for the learning of knowledge and skills. I am especially curious of human nature, and I study people in their similarities and differences over culture, time and belief. I enjoy making things with my creativity and imagination, especially things that bring enjoyment to others.

I am a mother, and try to use my time with my children to instil in them the values that I think will make them good people who use their gifts to the best of their ability to do good with their lives.

I am part of a mutually supportive marriage that gives me a strong foundation from which to flourish, and grounds me to a stable place.

I am an ideas person. I have many hundreds of interesting ideas about all manner of things. One of my weaknesses is the lack of dedicated follow-through.

I am a doer. I am always busy doing something. Whatever I do has a considered reason behind it, whether I sit down to watch a DVD, make a birthday present or fix a broken shelf.

That summarises me to some extent. I could go into more detail and tell you some of my beliefs and how I action them, but this covers the basics.