Who Are You? November 20, 2007
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The questions in the last post seem simple on the surface. But if you consider them deeply enough, you’ll realize they are extremely difficult to answer. This is rapidly becoming at least a two part post so I’ll start take it slow.
“Who are you?”
The question isn’t, “Who do other people say you are?” or “Who did your parents raise you to be?”. What defines your identity? Have you grown to be the person you thought you would be? I used to take comfort in thinking that I fell in some pre-fashioned slot and I was running on autopilot with the plan God had laid out for me. That mentality almost ended me.
It’s so easy to become convinced that things have to be a certain way that I managed to work myself into a huge knot of stress so tight that I had panic attacks every few nights.
A very good friend of mine slapped that notion out of me. He just looked at me with complete frustration and told me to snap out of it. I changed my life up a bit and things got better.
By no means would I contend that I figured stuff out. I just realized that you don’t have to figure it out. You are who you want to be, and if you don’t like it you can change. Changing isn’t easy, but there’s nothing preventing us from deciding our own fate.
Real Questions November 15, 2007
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It’s strange how television shows can draw attention to some really important questions.
One show, I’ll spare you all the title so you don’t write off my point, says there are basically two questions everyone must answer in their life:
“Who are you?”
and
“What do you want?”
I don’t know the answer to either and that really scares me.
Introduction November 1, 2007
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I’ve had blogs in the past. Most of them were started so I could call attention to the things that upset me about the world and I could unload my irrational opinion on them. Now that I’m advancing in my career and you can Google my old blogs where I’m bitching about my ex-girlfriends amongst my papers about complex magnetic materials, I realized its time to start anew.
On this blog I’ll try to be a little more civilized. A little less personal. A little more even keeled. And maybe even a little less angry.
