Well that has been on my mind quite alot lately...You often see posts on facebook along the lines of 'like this and i'll use three words that describe you' etc ad infinitum.... does anyone else think how limiting this is? So last night while trying to get Aaliyah back to sleep at 3am I was giving it some thought (i do my best thinking in her rocking chair! to bad I forget most of it by morning!)
I'm a pretty visual learner so I thought, hey I know I'll make a chart! A pie chart of who I am....way harder than I thought, becasue at any given point in time I'm not just one thing. It's much more like an oinion (although sweeter smelling I hope) in that I am usually wearing multiple hats and playing various roles at once.
So the black spot is the mythical 'me' that I started out looking for...buried quite deep down at the moment are the musician, the writer and the photographer, a big part of my life at the moment is my role as Relief Society 2nd Councellor, Wife and Homemaker, and of course mum (Still a pretty simplified version, but it gave me a start). But what I learned is that I am all of that, at any one time the black dot will float around in that circle and I'm always me....there are times when I am knee deep entrenched in being mum with three ill children and no time for anything else, other times (albeit fewer at the moment) i have the luxury to be more creative.
I am not a collection of words, I am not one person that fits in a tick box, I cannot easily be defined, I am the sum of my achievements, the result of my actions. And more importantly, even when I feel I dont know myself, my loving Father in Heaven does, and I can always turn to him for guidance.
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