Saturday, September 27, 2014
Who are you?
A recent survey asked both men and women in the forties if you had to describe who you are in one word what word would that be? Some said power while others said prestige and excellence. Not one person who took the survey tried to embrace all of their roles in life inside one word, and all seemed to describe just the one word that stood out for them the most. In the end, those who wrote the survey wondered why descriptive words such as love, caring, and faith were not addressed. A brief discussion then followed about what life would be like without love and faith. They also believed that if the survey takers were more loving and faithful others emotions such as stress and worry would decrease significantly. I thought it was pretty cool I was most passionate for forensic work but I totally neglected my roles as husband and father and by doing so I realized how unbalanced life had become. Who are you?
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Thanks for sharing my Blog Tour Giveaway. I was really excited to find this blog and to start to discover your writing as well. Plus I loved this post. There is a section in Confessions of a Self-Help Writer (The Journal of Michael Enzo) that applies and I wanted to comment with it here:
ReplyDelete"Most people need to be able to define themselves by one word to feel complete. I am a doctor, I am a lawyer, I am a teacher. What defines me? All I know is I am sick of looking at the bottom of this glass.
I always considered myself a great writer, a visionary if you will. I constantly read books on how to write and always think: Man, I could write this.
I guess you have to publish some writing in your own name before anyone will buy your book on how to be a writer, though, and that is just another way society controls who gets to smoke fancy cigars and drive Italian sports cars.
So I’ll just have to stick to ghostwriting self-help books for now, I guess. Damn it."