Wednesday, August 27, 2014

             The question "Who am I?" is a bit too general, in my opinion. I, with the utmost modesty, am practically everything. Even if it may be a bit of a stretch at times. For example, I may not be the best at sports, but I play them, so doesn't that make me an athlete? And I can barely play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" on the piano, but that's enough to consider myself a musician. Right? I make music. Thus I am a musician. Nobody ever said you had to be good at it, or like it, to be it.
             Of course, there are several exceptions to this idea. For instance, I am male. I am categorized as a boy. But, I can be feminine, so, while it doesn't make me a girl, I can at least say that I am both masculine and feminine. Another example, I am white. That is my ethnicity. I can't change it, but that doesn't mean I can never eat dumplings and sushi just because I'm not Asian. Or that I will be sent to jail for wearing a sombrero and speaking Spanish even though I'm not Latino.
             To be honest, I don't want to answer this question with some adjectives and titles that really don't mean much, because, of course, I'm a student, and a son, and a friend. Hopefully, also, I'm kind, and creative, and thoughtful, but I don't want to be confined and restricted with these labels. I want to be everything. I want to experience all the things this world has to offer. I want to be unique but also universal.  I want to be able to go anywhere or go to anyone and have some connection with them. I don't just want to be "well-rounded," I want to be a sphere, a combination of everything. So that is who I am. I am athletic, musical, smart, funny, kind, honest, and creative, but I am also rude, insensitive, condescending, annoying, and lazy. I am optimistic. I am pessimistic. I am truthful. I am a liar. I am everything or, at least at one point or another, I will be. But above all else, I am Liam.

1 comment:

  1. There you go. Thanks for this insightful and honest post. I love the allusion to "Twinkle Twinkle" and I found the "sphere" metaphor very appropriate. This is also technically very well written. I look forward to working with you this year.

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