| A few words about who I am... |
| Who am I, this webmaster who sits at her PC,
tapping on keys that magically produce words on my screen? What do you
answer when asked "Who are you?" This came to my mind when talking with some children. Several responded with their names. Some also included their ages and grade level. I started to realize that we define ourselves through our activity. Apparently this starts at an early age. I started listening to what adults say in answer to this question. Of course the name is usually first, but sometimes the occupation or official title is given. For instance in the grocery store, if a customer has a question, they're greeted with, "Hello, I'm the Manager. How may I help you?" Talking with people privately, the answers change. Apparently the answer depends on what a person is doing at the moment, or whom they are with. When meeting a daughter's friends, the mother might say, "Hello, I'm Mary's mother, how do you do?" The opposite holds true when the mother and daughter are shopping. They bump into the mother's hairdresser who addresses the child and says "And who are you?" Predictably, the answer is "I am her daughter." Are these merely titles, roles, hats that we wear? Or are they all different aspects of our one self? If the latter is true, then it would seem all humans suffer from a multi-personality. Going with the idea that if you think everyone else but you is crazy, then you yourself must be, I discard that theory from not wanting to admit insanity. So I'm left with the idea that all these different answers to Who Am I? are titles and roles. That leads back to the original question: Who Am I, when all the titles and roles and hats are stripped away? Is this what people talk about when they say they must "find themselves"? I could tell you that I am Morganna, a woman, a wife, a daughter, an artist, an internet user, a housecleaner, a former secretary, a camper who needs her air conditioning, a traveler, an asthma sufferer, a reader of books, a surfer of sites, a listener of tunes....... this could get to be a really long list. Or I could simply answer, "I am Morganna." Excuse me... er, um, I have to go find myself. |
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Muna Writings - "Who I am"
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Created November 13, 1997 by Morganna Avity