Defining moment

What defines you?

Think about that for a moment...  What defines you?  Your family?  Friends?  Clothes?  Hair?  Ethnicity?  The way you talk, or walk?  Do your children define you (if you have them)?  Your husband/wife/significant other?

So many different ways to think about yourself and what truly defines who you are as a person.  I have thought about this question in recent years.  What defines me are many different things.  I can't pinpoint just one thing.  If the Merriam-Webster Dictionary had to define me, it would probably take up a Volume.  Volume A.  And I couldn't possibly just be a noun, I am a verb too, and while I'm at it, an adjective...  Aren't we all though?  Aren't we all persons, places and things, describing words, etc.  We are so completely complex and different, yet so similar and simple (in a way).  I digress...

Okay, so back to what defines me...  I was going to say my children - like some parents say.  But that is not true for me.  My children do not define me, not at all, they just enhance who I am as a person.  They make me better than I am.  They have taught me so much, but they aren't what has defined me.

From looking at me on the outside, you may say, those features define her.  O no, they don't define me.  Those features just give you the illusion of who I may be.  But my eyes, my lips, my cheeks, the way I wear my hair, those things don't define me, they just give you a false sense of who you may think I am.

If you heard my heavy footsteps coming up a flight of stairs you would say, O, those loud footsteps define her... Loud, purposeful and heavy.  But I would have to disagree, those don't define me.  Those heavy footsteps are from a woman who has places to go and people to see, a purpose and life, but with no destination, just walking happily.

So, there is no simple answer to this.  Think about it.  What defines you?  You, like me won't be able to come up with one single answer, but many different definitions of who you are.  It is a process of what defines us.  The wonderful thing about definitions is that like everything else in this world they may evolve.  Though a definition itself may not change (usually), the way it is used may evolve.  Such as, evolve came from a Latin word, evolvere, first known use was in 1775.  And look at it now.

We are endless definitions.  We are who we believe we are.  We are who others believe we are.  We are timeless, ever changing, ever evolving.

NOTE:  I apologize for any misspells or I had to do it quickly at 4am...   Have a Great week!!!  I'm off line for a few days... Enjoy the silence! ;)