[Closed] Self definition: Who are You?

I'm the mild-mannered janitor.

i think Mr beeblebrox said it best

You mean Penry? Number One Super-Guy?

You're daddy day care, enjoy, they'll be at school before you know where you are..

Just this.
"From birth until death--it's just this."
(Dogen)

Grasshopper 😯

How remote are you? Get out and meet the toddler groups, you will be most welcome as a married (assumption by me) man as another influence in other kids lives. I did a lot of childcare when my two were younger due to shift work and a pattern with lots of free time. It was great though not stimulating at times. The local toddler group was a godsend though adults to talk to and the kids running and playing in safety. Visits into town or just out for a wander help avoid the stir crazy feeling.
Currently I'm part of the joblessworld crew and my job is to get fit and be a domestic god 8), whilst searching for a new job. It's a challenge and I miss my trips to the Peak District and the Lakes etc. but I'm covering silly amounts of miles in the local area. Enjoy the ability to stop and smell the flowers as and when you want or the kids require. This time will pay dividends in the teenage years.

i have a shit job at a shit company in a shit town....
you live in new zealand and spend your days with you kids....must be terrible.
i am happy tho, big, happy, ton.
i ride when i like, what i like, so it is not too bad.... 😀

Who am I?

I'll find out one day.

I am quadrophenic, no i'm not, yes i am...ignore those three, i am me.

Reggae lifestyle, rock and roll haircut.

cut me in half and i have bikes written through the middle

im a 22 year old soldier who live for the moment! and isnt phased by any thing that is thrown in front of me

i am what i am, and what i am needs no excuses..

I'm a rock 'n' roll star.

I'm a chap who's generally interested in the world, but has to spend all f*cking day sat in front of this computer doing pathetically boring things (to me) and imagining all the other amazing things that are out there to see and do.

Me; I'm Me I am 😀

I am a mountain, I am the sea, You can't take that away from me.

On a serious note, theres not exactly a shortage of Jap imports in NZ - could you do a bit of tuning/rally prep on the side?

Whereabouts are you anyway?

I am not an island.

That narrows it down a bit.

Great song that Shandy.

I have no particular definition of myself - I find it odd that people need to do so.

My feeling is that if I had kids I would love to look after them - I accept that's pretty dreamy though.

The grass is ever greener...

i am a tree...

but i'm thinking of branching out.

I frigging hate work. That kind of defines me maybe? So chopper, don't worry about not being at work too much 🙂

I'm another year older and still no wiser 😐

I am a man. I am in the north.

So have some sympathy, please.

I seem to be molgrips.

I'm Brian. And so's my wife.

If DezB is me and I am DezB, then am I still the Walrus?

Doesnt sound to me like Chopper dislikes his current position at all, quite the contrary.

I'm 22, I have a buggered knee so bike riding is comfined to sporadic bursts every few years when the doctors let me before it reverts to being completely feked.

I live in a shared house with some pretty cool people, but the landlord is a grade one c**k, who "forgets" to replace the thermostat batteries when he takes them out for no feking good reason. And takes months to fix things.

I live in the south east which is rubbish

My job is nowhere near as interesting the degree "required" to do it.

And yes I will be geting private health care, moving up North, getting a different job and buying my own house just as soon as I can.

I'm me. I fart a lot.

thisisnotaspoon - cant you just refit your own batteries?

I'm deluded

I'm ****in ace, me.

I am a lowly paid peanut monkey.

does one need to define oneself ? I think we just get on with it...

Imagine you're on the Weakest Link:
"I'm Kevin and I'm an insurance salesman"

Doesn't work for me. But I think Anne might get a bit impatient with chopperT's description.

I'm a bike riding lampy

Or a lamp hanging bikey.

Something like that anyway

I'm a true Legend in My Own Mind

I am cowboy, looking for anything heavy

Dogsbody, taxi driver, funding expert, enforced workaholic, dog walker,

A man that is borne of a woman has but a very short time to live,
He comes up like a foresail top-mast, and down like a small flying jib.

I might not be a foresail topmast, but I'm certainly no small flying jib.

Sounds like an idylic lifestyle! Ages 2 and 3.5 yrs is a good time with kids. They are cute and relatively easy to manage. As they will quickly grow up this time will pass. You will suddenly realise that golden time is gone and you will be left with demanding, but non-communicative teenagers who have a spectacular ability to empty your wallet (but I wouldn't have it any other way :wink:)

Enjoy it why it lasts.

Live for the day!

Can you see the real me? Can you? Can you?

I am the sea.

I am the heather moorland.

😉

I am an idiot.

I'm the organ grinder, not the monkey.

Cut me in half and im full of bikes, motorbikes and diving. I need to be outside to be happy. I need to be almost scared to be excited. I dont like to follow.

Hmm, inertesting one...

I believe I am defined, to some extent, by the people around me. Who I am, to them. The people close to me are a pretty varied bunch, from all sorts of walks of life. But all are genuinely decent, honest, caring people. Patience and a sense of humour are probbly handy qualities to have around me, tbh.

So, I spose I'm shaped and influenced by them, as others are, by me.

I think the key is, to see yourself as you would like to have others see you. and to continually strive to be the sort of person they can love, and feel happy around. Pretty much an on-going process of constant adjustment and evolution, I'd say. And you'll never get it 'right', you can only hope to eliminate most of the negative issues, and concentrate on enhancing the positive ones.

Overall, I'd define myself as a 'happy' person, if I'm forced to use just one word.

I spose overall, I'm more of a 'thinker' than a 'do-er'. If more people did what I think, then maybe my own little world would be more perfect.

i could re-fit the batteries if:

A) I knew the thermostat had batteries
B) I knew he'd taken them

And I wouldn't need to if he wasn't so much of a tight fisted fuc* as to take the batteries out in the fist place, just to save on the gas bill (which it doesn't as once we found the batteries were missing we just turned the heating on until the house was warm again).

In the past people defined themselves by the musical trend (for want of a better word) or fashion they followed
I'm a punk
I'm a teddyboy
I'm a mod

Don't get that anymore do you. I wonder if there ever will be a genre to define yourself by again.

I'm a leftfieldraphiphopelectrodubstepindieexperimentalpunk btw.

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[i]Hmm, inertesting one...

I believe I am defined, to some extent, by the people around me. Who I am, to them. The people close to me are a pretty varied bunch, from all sorts of walks of life. But all are genuinely decent, honest, caring people. Patience and a sense of humour are probbly handy qualities to have around me, tbh.

So, I spose I'm shaped and influenced by them, as others are, by me.

I think the key is, to see yourself as you would like to have others see you. and to continually strive to be the sort of person they can love, and feel happy around. Pretty much an on-going process of constant adjustment and evolution, I'd say. And you'll never get it 'right', you can only hope to eliminate most of the negative issues, and concentrate on enhancing the positive ones.

Overall, I'd define myself as a 'happy' person, if I'm forced to use just one word.

I spose overall, I'm more of a 'thinker' than a 'do-er'. If more people did what I think, then maybe my own little world would be more perfect.[/i]

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🙄

I am very fortunate.

Best not to stop and wallow in the "who am I?" question too much. That way lies relgious nuttiness.

Best not to stop and wallow in the "who am I?" question too much.

Too frightening for you to contemplate, Stoner?

Avocado; I notice you have nowt inertesting to say yourself, but I don't mind you quoting me, if it makes you feel better.

I'm Spartacus

No Im Spartacus!

Not at all.

I meant philosophically for anyone. An intense introspection is rarely a good thing IMO.

Did you know that they took the definition of miketually out of the dictionary?

Best not to stop and wallow in the "who am I?" question too much. That way lies relgious nuttiness.

No, not at all. That way lies understanding 🙂 If you work at it enough, that is.

I am the Walrus..

I am a dad, a husband, a provider, a self employed worker and a bike rider - in that order. Not so long ago I was a selfish, self centred bike rider. I am a better person.

Plenty of folks seem to have a concise self definition, well done.

RudeBoy seems to understand the question well, thinking indeed.

Stoner, quite right, religious nuttiness to be avoided.

I used to like to tell myself that there was "an army of me".

I'm the 😈

im 17 and dont know who i am unless im either in mountains or killing myself physically. i suppose i dont know who i am especially due to recent events. im working towords joining the royal marines next year and trying to make something of my life rather than joining the wasters that seem to surround me.

No, I'm spartacus

Im not a number, Im a free man (but dont tell the gf)

Usually, I'm a father, a husband and a son. What I do a living, how I spend my spare time and who I'd like to sh@g is irrelevant. What matters is my family, their well-being, their future. And their present.
I ride a pushbike, I fiddle and play with it, I spend my savings on it.
I ride a motorcycle at times. I will get better but won't take any chances.
I drive a car. A lot, rarely alone, usually with my girls or friends. So they can be comfortable.
I love being active and find sitting patiently very hard. But my sprog is ill at the moment, poor little one. Suddnely everything takes a back seat, nothing matters, just the little girl. When she recovers completely I'll take har to the sea, for now though I am just a dad. And nothing more.

Hope your sprogess is better soon Hairychested!
Nothing else matters when your kids are ill.

I AM SPARTA!

i'm lister

i have a sister

but i've never kissed her (contrary to the rumour in primary school)

ps I've also been a stay at home dad and am now back at work: QUIT YER WHINGIN'!!! 😉 best year of my life...i'm really not someone who needs to work to 'define me', bringing me boy up for a bit gave me everything I needed...shame I can't do it again really, now we've got 2...

I am a collection of atoms and molecules which have temporarily come together**

[i]"for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return"[/i]

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**And are having a bit of a party 8)

I was so wasted I was a hippie I was a burnout I was a dropout I was out of my head I was a surfer I had a skateboard I was so heavy man, I lived on the strand I was so wasted I was so ****ed up I was so messed up I was so screwed up I was out of my head I was so jacked up I was so drunk up I was so knocked out, I was out of my head I was so wasted I was waste

F*ck me, black flag lyrics (though if I am honest I thought it was the Circle Jerks at first)

I am the resurrection, and I am the light.....

I try to be a better person every day.

Until a year or so ago, I defined myself by the sport I did, and the races I won. I have always lived to work rather than the other way round (do many on here live to work? the only obvious possibility I can think of is WCA). Am now gradually turning into sporty daddy.

Not sure how well I'd cope with being a full time parent - right now it's only 1 day a week (plus weekends!), and whilst 2 days a week would be better, I'm not quite sure about 5. However it could be a huge amount worse - plenty of groups you can join, places to hang out and meet other adults, even if they're also just parents. I find it possible to strike up a conversation with total strangers (women!) at the playground, as a bloke with a little child is totally non-threatening. It might not be very much like flirting, but I still enjoy just interacting with the opposite sex. If you go to something like Tumble Tots (don't know if they have that over there), or a music group, you'll doubtless get lots of attention as the only male IME!

I'm someone that can't answer this question for many reasons, mainly based around my own self definition, compared to others, compared to my own, leading to an infinte loop that encapsulates almost everything.

I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one

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