i have created an identity for my Self by/through what i make.
if i do not make, who? what" am I?
Today you made a question.
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As I age & lose more and more of my earlier ways of being, I, too, often ask “But without _____ [fill in the blank] who am I?” Thank you, Jude, for your wise answer.
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What a question…
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You are you…as we go through life, we give ourselves many descriptors but I believe that our essence, the core of who we are, holds: the rest are all evolving adjectives.
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more than once I’ve said I hope my obituary notes “she made great cookie dough” … for I have made many people happy by so doing
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Who am I .. not who I was yesterday.
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I think I agree with Marti today…
Somewhere inside of ourselves, we are alway that authentic self, along with the cumulative selves that have joined up over our lifespans.
I have asked this question of yours at traumatic events in my life (unwanted job shifts, marriage ending…), but thankfully I’ve not thought to ask it in a very long time.
xo
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the question arose itsSelf…presented to me
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worth spending some time with…i think…..
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it’s the evolvings, the changes of form and substance
that wants my attention now…
yes…there is a core but as we go….it acquires
New uhhhhhh, new something
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obituary…..
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there is some kind of maybe unfolding, shedding
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it’s my Big Question
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