Who are you?

[mtnbiker3000]

Very, very good question. Although somewhat rhetorical. The answers should be for yourself, not someone else...

[Anela]

Half the time, I feel like a ghost. Yesterday, I was trying to remember when I stopped living, and somehow became a sidekick to everyone else: daughter, sister, friend, acquaintance, occasional enemy (not in my view).

 

I was feeling like I mainly exist for others, and was upset over having basically been sabotaged over the past few years, whereas my sister got what she wanted: she married, and moved to Canada. this weekend, one cousin who's a week older than I am, graduated from college, and one a year older, married his long-term girlfriend at the beach, on the East coast. I have things that I want, and need, to do. I know who I am in ways, but it's never been just me, in my own place, doing my own thing.

[contact1]

Who am I?? Can't you see my name on the upper left hand side of this post? Some people I swear...

[todreaminblue]

i never really knew who i was on any given day or situation i could be someone else anyway but im all deb at heart.....ill eb the deb you need or wish me to be concept...........i think it comes down to theoretically, maybe spiritually what you stand up for ...and considering i stand up now and say hey im just deb or on the phoen i say hey its just me when i call someone or text if they dont know me or havent met me in multiple, i say its from deb they know who i am then ,you can call me deborah,debbie, which ever you prefer, think for up your own variations if you so wish too, one of the debs will answer you..... and i shake hands because that is who i am what i stand up for is faith in that i deserve to be known by that name alone and it be enough to know who the persons name is i am talking to .If i pursue conversation its to find out what they stand up for and why they would stand for that ...i would stand for someone who shares my faith any time any day any place....if you don't respect what i stand for or consider me less worthy of your time because of what i stand for,walk away and i wish you well and respect you anyway regardless if it is returned in kind..because i have enough kindness in my heart to cover you anyway..did this on demon face book last night when all of me was disrespected because of what i stand for i wished him a great day, after he called people of my faith morons instead of mormons,i am definitely not of the moronic order could have cut him down completely if i were to be a mean person i am not,felt like it though i am not perfect i am of the women's relief society and pure joyful order of the sisterhood man order......we are all sisters everyone of us womens, mormon or not

 

 

 

 

and he liked my post so hence because i showed respct he shwed me respect back and the covnrstatin ended quietly and graciously....i do not back away, i stand,ridicule or not,which gives testimony to my faith and to who i am as a person...and i am respected for that alone, i live who i am and what i stand for i will not affilliate to anyone who would not respect me or my faith i woudl respect them however and find common ground if they ridculd my family friends brothers sisters i would not let them......i dont know what that is called as a european concept or more a christian concept for i am an aussie.....maybe today anyway..i wanna be a polynesian and dance like them tonight on a pier with water rippling..smilin...deb

Edited June 10, 2014 by todreaminblue

[seren]

I am a damned good friend but a really bad enemy. I forgive easily, but never forget. I will always have a friend's back, but for those I love I will stand in front and fight those dragons, I am afraid of nothing and no one and despite being caring, I can be a very scary person, but quietly. I have integrity by the bucketload and hate hypocrisy. I can be difficult, I make a lot of noise, singing, I talk a lot. People who know me call me eccentric, alternative, scary, funny, mad, awkward, stubborn and I know I am a high IQ person.

 

I cry easily at other's sorrow, but have learned that for me, I just get on with it. I have no place for pity, especially toward me. I play the saxophone badly, but at least I try. My dad called me the little windmill that could, in that I never, ever give up. Men that have loved me do so because I make them laugh, am a challenge and am unpredictable. My H because he says I am silly and the bravest person he knows. Looks wise, I am no longer a young, fit, slim biker type, now my red hair is a wig, thanks to the big c, I am heavier than I would like due to medication and I cannot walk far, but my brain is racing as usual. I have tatoo's, some piercings and am probably so not what people online think I am. Who knows how others see us, me? I'll settle for just waking up each morning and being happy in my skin and with myself.

[lino]

That is definitely somewhat true but in Italy, what you do for a living is still considered important. Women chase guys with money there just as much as everywhere else.

 

But yes, unlike in Anglo Saxon cultures, life doesn't solely revolve around work in our culture.

 

 

To answer the question, I'm a Doriano and a f*cking proud one at that

[lino]

But the amount of people in poverty in the USA surely means the unemployment ratio is meaningless as an example.

 

But surely from such a highly educated position you knew that?

 

Think you're pissing in the wind there mate.

[normal person]

 

Is this the result of american culture?

 

I do think it's a result of American culture. A lot of us work so much that we let what we do define us for lack of anything else. Europeans take weeks off, that's unheard of here. I think we have a "horizon" culture, as in: what you want is just over the horizon, so keep working for it. If you work hard enough you'll get it eventually. Sadly it's not true for most people. They work tirelessly their whole lives and might have some modest luxury but ultimately many of them are one-dimensional and unfulfilled.

 

I was at a party last year with a lot of people I'd never met before, we all started joking, rather than asking "So what do you do?" someone said "So what's the thing that you do all the time that I'm going to use to judge you as a person?"

[tbf]

A phoenix.

[Bishop556]

I am the alpha and the omega.

[hasaquestion]

I think we have a "horizon" culture, as in: what you want is just over the horizon, so keep working for it. If you work hard enough you'll get it eventually. Sadly it's not true for most people. They work tirelessly their whole lives and might have some modest luxury but ultimately many of them are one-dimensional and unfulfilled.

 

Or as a friend of mine puts it: we ignore our health and chase money, then we spend all our money on healthcare.

[gaius]

But the amount of people in poverty in the USA surely means the unemployment ratio is meaningless as an example.

 

But surely from such a highly educated position you knew that?

It just means we don't welfare the non-working out of poverty, like it should be. I'd stop asking what you do for a living if the answer I got back most of the time was welfare bum. How depressing.

 

Nice try you still lose though.

[Eternal Sunshine]

I have extreme sides to my personality. I am sensitive, caring and compassionate to people I consider friends but can be ruthless when crossed.

 

When someone betrays my trust it's gone forever. At best, I can maintain superficial politeness.