Odie "Odienator" Henderson has spent over 33 years working in Information Technology. He runs the blogs Big Media Vandalism and Tales of Odienary Madness. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here.
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(Note: people can use the above attributes to judge someone, but people are always making judgments, so a person can only control themselves and not let others define them. The goal here is not self-judgment but rather understanding what makes someone who they are.)
Here, you can see from this example of someone's gradual transformation from where they are to where they want to be that you're trying to stay roughly the same person but make progress over time in what you know, what you do, who you are, and what you accomplish. Your degree of growth and transformation is up to you, and you'll know whether you're on the right track if you're happy and fulfilled with your life.
This is where the "Who am I?" question intersects with the "Why am I here?" question. The meaning of life is growth, and growth is the transformation of yourself from a current state to a future state. For you to have a purpose, you do have to have at least some sense of yourself given the above attributes and what, therefore, you will spend your time doing. To figure out yourself, you can start by identifying your characteristics, relationships, behaviors, and achievements so far in life (if you can't think of the latter, give yourself more credit). These are either past events or self-evident current circumstances, so you can easily write them down. Then, identify your desires, beliefs, and values. What you want, believe, and value will determine your goals, ethics, and behaviors moving forward, so you have to try to understand them. This process can be difficult, and you might not like everything you identify, but it's important to introduce yourself to...yourself so that you can begin to understand what matters to you.
Once you've gotten that, the transition from understanding yourself to understanding your purpose is simply the act of defining who you want to be (i.e., your desired future state) and then figuring out what to do to get there (i.e., your purpose). If you've done the above current-state and future-state exercises for yourself, all that's left is to create a third list that takes that information and determines what growth you need to seek to become the person you want to be, the experiences you need to pursue to attain that growth, and then make sure that you make deliberate choices and get the support you need to attain them. Make sure that your desires tell you that you really want that future state and that your beliefs and ethics are ones that will be optimal for you to be able to attain it. As always, your emotions will tell you how you're doing.
When you're done with those three exercises, you will have a better (if not clear) understanding of who you are, who you want to be, and why you're here. Figure that out, and you will not only know what you're about but will also feel a greater sense of self-assurance and comfort with yourself.
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"I am more who I am here than I am anywhere" : an ethnographic study of the influences of safety and connection on the co-constructions of gender and sexual orientation identities in adolescents in small groups.
Ember, Sally S. Fleischmann, ""I am more who I am here than I am anywhere" : an ethnographic study of the influences of safety and connection on the co-constructions of gender and sexual orientation identities in adolescents in small groups." (1997). Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014. 5280. _1/5280
2 One night Eli, whose eyes(D) were becoming so weak that he could barely see,(E) was lying down in his usual place. 3 The lamp(F) of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the house(G) of the Lord, where the ark(H) of God was. 4 Then the Lord called Samuel.
On June 15th, 2020, Twitter user @PPRADAFEMME[6] uploaded a popular tweet captioned, "mentally I'm here wearing a flowy dress" paired with a garden image (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 62,200 likes and 24,300 retweets in two months. On June 27th, Twitter user @milkygoddess[7] uploaded an example that launched the popularity of the meme on Twitter (shown below, right). The tweet accumulated over 155,600 likes and 47,500 retweets in two months.
On August 12th, Twitter user @paperssil[8] tweeted, "mentally i am here" with an image from the horror film Midsommar and acquired over 21,100 likes in two weeks (shown below, left). On August 21st, Twitter user @helen[9] tweeted a cursed image example that accumulated over 20,700 likes in three days (shown below, right). Junkee,[1] Mashable[2] and Complex[3] published articles on the trend in late August.
Solving big problems requires big solutions. As a representative from Southern Arizona, I will keep fighting for policies that help Arizona families thrive, support a humane immigration system that works for everyone, and prioritize strong environmental protections to combat the climate crisis and safeguard our planet for future generations to come.I am here to serve you!
I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers.
I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.
Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.
Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. 2ff7e9595c
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