How do you define yourself? One of the most challenging things I’ve done is set up my blog and facebook profile pages. There are two reasons for this: one, I am a private person and don’t like disclosing all that information, and two, every time I look at the profiles, I don’t feel they are a true representation of me. I look at other people’s profiles and think, “wow, they’re so cool.” I never think that after reading my profile!
Besides, I have a really hard time defining who I am. When I think of definitions, I think of a dictionary – you know, a comprehensive detailing of what the word means. So, when I look at these profiles, I feel they are just little facts here and there, but don’t do a good job of defining who I am as a person. But honestly, when I sit back and try to define who and what I am, I get frustrated with that too. I know I am a wife and mother, but is that it? No, I’m a college-educated woman. But that doesn’t do it either. I never had a career, per se, so I don’t really have a definition from that aspect of my life. Do I go with personality traits like organized, planner, project-oriented, opinionated, etc? Then I sound like an anal Martha Stewart (I think that might be redundant), but if you see my house on any given day, you know full well I am not. So, back to square one. Let’s start with what I know for a fact.
I am a child of God, saved by grace, trying to get through each day glorifying Christ. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn’t.
I am a wife who is committed to being kind and respectful to her husband who still has moments of crankiness and disrespect.
I’m a mother with high expectations of myself and children who usually misses the mark (my children are down-right good most of the time, so it’s not them missing the mark).
I dabble in writing and currently have a mental block with finishing my latest and always on-going project.
Perhaps the reason I have a hard time defining myself is because I wish I were superwoman – that I could say everything I do comes off without a hitch. But in reality, I’m simply a normal person who puts her pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else. I’m okay with that, I think. 🙂
Do you have a hard time defining yourself? What have you come up with so far?
(c) 2016 Leighann Marquiss
Comments (1)
I think you left out great friend, world traveler, and fairly decent Settlers of Catan player!