Who are You?

Ever have anyone ask you who you are? What is your response? One day I stated simply, I am a mom. Apparently this was not the right answer. Mom is a title, as is daughter, sister, and wife, etc...

Who are you, is a question people do not like to delve into. It means you have to get to know yourself. Through the day to day activities that come with being a wife and mother, or even just a mother, it is so easy to loose yourself and forget that there is a whole other entity to you. Who were you before you were a wife and a mother? Before you became a single mom?

After some thought, I decided that being a mom defines me. It tells a lot about me. It means that my children are my priority. However, what about the person I used to be? The one who had hopes and dreams for her future? The one who had every aspect of her life planned out, to the tiniest detail.

I am serious person by nature. I am logical almost to a fault. However, I don't think I was always this way. Those who read this and who knew me before, maybe you can comment on it.

So here is who I am:
1. I love to read, reading is a big part of who I am
2. As is writing. I gave it up...why? Long story
3. I appear logical and serious, but I do like to have fun and even occasionally act silly.
4. I am firm in my opinions and my  beliefs.
5. I will fight for what I believe in
6. I don't always like going to the gym. Some days I just want to be lazy and do nothing
7. Not very trusting
8. Sincere
9. Skeptical

I am not even sure that this sums it up, but its all I could come up with. I still love the titles that make up me: Mom, daughter, sister, friend student.

The answer to the question, "Who are you" is so much more complex than just simple answers can explain. Its all the things, titles and traits, that make us who we are. Being a mom, added a different element to who I am now. Before I was a mom, I was not missing parts of me, I just didn't have the views and opinions that change the second you hold that baby in your arms for the first time. I didn't have the responsibility of another person's life in my hands. I was carefree for sure, and I don't think I have lost that, its just been pushed aside for my children's sake who need more than a carefree mom who doesn't want to be responsible.

I love who I am now. I love who I have become. I don't regret any part of my past, because without it, I would be a whole different person than the one I have become. Even getting divorced taught me so much about myself that I would have never discovered if i had not gone through it.

So what answers do you have for who you are?

Until next time...