What makes you, you?

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Quirkybird

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I have always been me from the moment I drew breath. I have never wanted to be anyone else or fit in. I have not wanted to follow fashion, or am I interested in celebs. I have never looked up to anyone as far as I can remember. I have just wanted to do my own thing. I want to be good enough, and help others along the way, if I can. Of course I am far from perfect, not that I wish to be so, but if I changed I wouldn't be me.

My daughter told me today that someone commented that I have established myself as one of the neighbourhood characters; we have only lived in the village for two years!:D On my daily walks I have noticed that people I don't know wave as they pass by in their cars! :)

So what makes you, you, is it your faith/philosophy or something else?
 
Who we are now is what we were then and who we were from the beginning. I am no exception. We are all the sum total of the unique qualities and attributes born unto us by the creator. That which makes us individuals.

Sadly, many deny who they really are in order to fit into established society norms. Let your 'Freak Flag' fly I say and to the known self be true. :p
 
the thing I call me is a collections of habits and fears its not really real
 
At least in part, the sum total of the experiences I have had and the choices I have made
 
If you "know" who you are, you're probably mistaken.

As the Beatles sang, "I am you, and you are me, and we are all together."

Reminds me of the prayer in the Gospel of John.

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All of the choices made in the past that effected me made me who I am today, including the minor ones like "Will I have cold cereal today or will I make an oven pancake with a fruit topping instead?"

Or the choices made by other people that effect me like "I won't make the soup that I promised to make because I don't know how to boil water," which caused me to be late to a night class I needed.

The second example was courtesy of my ex-sister-in-law who has asked me how my "meow meow" (Tovarish the Cat, who does not like to be called a "meow-meow", especially by someone who is an American English native speaker with seemingly functional grey matter) is. The way she talks to me makes it seem that we're not somewhere around 50 or 55 years old.

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Quirkybird said:
I have always been me from the moment I drew breath. I have never wanted to be anyone else or fit in. I have not wanted to follow fashion, or am I interested in celebs. I have never looked up to anyone as far as I can remember. I have just wanted to do my own thing. I want to be good enough, and help others along the way, if I can. Of course I am far from perfect, not that I wish to be so, but if I changed I wouldn't be me.

My daughter told me today that someone commented that I have established myself as one of the neighbourhood characters; we have only lived in the village for two years!:D On my daily walks I have noticed that people I don't know wave as they pass by in their cars! :)

So what makes you, you, is it your faith/philosophy or something else?
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No one is who they are, our emotions shows a different personality. One

love, the next shows another person such as resentment, another moment it shows another person.
We need to be aware of the different people whose identities has entered us.
 
What makes you you?

It is a surprisingly difficult question to answer. There is so much input involved, internally, externally. There are so many life experiences from the most joyous to the most horrific, and everything in between. And how any one person reacts to those experiences will affect the outcome as much as the experiences themselves.

Then there are all the interactions you have had with others. Not just people; every living thing. All have affected the you that is you.

In another thread we were talking about the masks we wear in our daily lives. A mask for work, a mask for partner, a mask for parent, a mask for this friend, but not the same as for a different friend.

Like a rainbow, all these masks are but portions of the spectrum that makes you you. They all are you and no less real for being something you 'put on' for the occasion that demands it.

To say all these masks are not the real you would be untrue. And to say all these masks is all there is to you would also be untrue.

Then there is the you that is beyond you. What is your connection to the Cosmos. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, religious? And again, not only the ones you connect with; also how deeply you connect with them.

I’m sure there are other avenues I forgot to mention. As well as the fact that we are never stationary. We are changing all the time. Is what I was yesterday the same as today? Probably for the most part. But a decade ago? Whew! I wouldn’t know that person today.

All of the above is what makes me me. Apt to change at a moment’s notice!
 
From my side it was an easy question to answer. I was me from the moment I was born. Even before that according to native Australians. How we react to everything that happens to us after birth is directly related to who we are in the first place.

That's why different people have completely different reactions to the very same stimulus. My dad's a farmer. I'm an artist. My mom always said the same thing whenever someone asked why I hadn't followed in dad's footsteps, "It's not in his nature."
 
Well that's and easy one! There was nothing to make you you before there was a you.

Surely that makes sense to U?

Now I realize that is not exactly the question you asked. It IS the closest answer I can give you that is related to the subject of this thread.
 
Quirkybird said:
I have always been me from the moment I drew breath. I have never wanted to be anyone else or fit in. I have not wanted to follow fashion, or am I interested in celebs. I have never looked up to anyone as far as I can remember. I have just wanted to do my own thing. I want to be good enough, and help others along the way, if I can. Of course I am far from perfect, not that I wish to be so, but if I changed I wouldn't be me.

My daughter told me today that someone commented that I have established myself as one of the neighbourhood characters; we have only lived in the village for two years!:D On my daily walks I have noticed that people I don't know wave as they pass by in their cars! :)

So what makes you, you, is it your faith/philosophy or something else?
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We are not one identity until GOd changes our fallen nature. Only then can we be who GOd wants us to be.
until then we have other identies.
 
What makes of me what I am is what does not make of me to be another.
 
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