Thursday, July 14, 2011

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Who am I?

SO! In the grand scheme of things… I am currently doing nothing with my life.
Sure I just finished 4 years of college and I'm about to start work in 2.5 weeks and I have been "working" for 1.5… but currently I'm doing nothing… well except surfing the net. Where some things (on Twitter) caught my eye:
  • "Lawyer, beggar, hero, blogger, social activist, and local demonstrator (keep your coins, I WANT CHANGE)" - @HeavnsMandate
  • "Student, writer, thinker. Doer-in-the-making. Currently practicing my web-fu." - @LeGyare
  • "Visual designer & creativity addict. #Print #web #inspiration #socialmedia, #innovation #typography #UX #advertising #strategy with a side of sassy." - @Grinblo
  • "A thinker, a dreamer, a teacher & a professional non-achiever..." - @elidot
  • "Digital Disciple, Advertising Geek, Thinker, Reader, Writer, Talker." - @oBiii
Note: The rationale here is if the account is not protected, including names is fine… right?

These are the Bio sections of people who I follow/who followed me, or whose bios simply caught my eye. Notice the pattern? Each of them are a number of things (other than "thinkers"). A number of self-defining things… Things that are important to them, or at least I'm assuming are important enough to include in a bio. What does mine say? 

"One love, one God, one way." - @KuiDee

I must confess now, though, that it started out as "One mind, one heart, one love" from Trey Songz's "One Love." It changed at the beginning of the year… I think. So it's importance, despite the words, has been somewhat adulterated…

The point I'm trying to make with this overtly verbose post is that, if there were a standard to composing Twitter bios, and that standard was to list all the things that you are which are important to you, I'm not sure I would be able to meet the criteria. I have heard from a number: new friends, old friends, family, that I have done things I should be proud of and I should "stop being so modest". But I do not think of myself as being, by definition, "moderate in the estimation of [my] abilities or achievements." 
Either way, I still wouldn't know what to include in my list of social, intellectual or creative ability / position markers. I have been alive for over 2 decades (bloody hell), a good chuck of this time has been spent by others teaching, molding, building, encouraging and loving me. Longing for some beautiful amalgamation of it all, which I am currently incapable of condensing into a single line bio…

So. 

What have I done/do I do that I feel is self-defining? 
That overlaps with being important enough? 
For which I can be, definitively, modest?

Better still, who am I? 
 
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