Who Am I?

I was wondering to myself earlier, as I had a brief moment of alone time, "who am I?"

Really, what defines me? What makes me different?
Is it what I believe? Is it what I think? Is it who I think I am, how I perceive myself?

Then I thought, no.

I think who I, or who anyone is, is how one applies things that he/she has learned from experiences encountered.

Does that sound right?

I AM a Christian.
I AM a woman.
I AM a mother.
I AM a girlfriend.
I AM a daughter.
I am more than all of that too though.

I am ever changing. I think that everyone is. If we all stayed the same our entire lives and didn't learn or grow, wouldn't we be boring?

I think that's why it's hard to define one's self. At least it's difficult for me. I feel that I change a lot from day to day. I try to, strive to, it's one of my passions. To learn. And if who I am comes from the things I apply from what I've learned, it makes sense, to me...














So, who am I according to my definition of describing one's self.

I am a student. I like to think I never let the opportunity to learn slip away. I want to know all that I can about the things that interest me, or things that I need to know to help raise my children or play the role I desire to play in society.

I am nice. Maybe nicer than most, but from past experiences I have learned that being mean doesn't feel good and can make a lot of things worse than what they were to begin with, so I am nice.

I am a little hot-tempered. Unfortunately I have learned things that should have stopped this destructive personality trait, and while I have quelled my ill temperment, it is still there at times. I hope that throughout time I will not need more experiences teaching me to fix it, but that I can better apply what I learned from previous experiences and apply more self control so that it's not an issue.

Hmmm, that's still not the point I want to get across.

Is who I am how I act? Is it who I'm around? (Like the statement "you are who you hang with?") Is it how I feel?

I don't know. I guess it matters to me right now, because by figuring out who I am, a little better than how I know, I can figure out what direction to go in my life. I can develop more goals and become the best me possible.

Or I could just let God worry about that and go along for the ride...

That sounds like a good idea.

:-)