• wombat said on Jun 08, 2008....

  Maybe I would finally be free to be myself.....

• quietone said on Jun 08, 2008....

  wombie ~ yes, and who would "you" be then??  btw.. good morning! 

• Twylarants said on Jun 08, 2008....

  This is a great question, Quiet!
  Every time I start to type something, I change my mind. That's something that really makes you stop and think.
  Let's see...I would be...well, it depends on if you mean now or if there never had been someone to tell me who I am, like family, spouse, etc.
  Ok, I'm overthinking it now.
  I would be a  traveler,  I'd have enough money to take care of myself, travel, drive a newer car...I'd have a career, and friends, and I'd sit and read the New York Times on Sunday mornings instead of getting ready to go to my retail job and spending 8 hours thanking people for buying a $6.95 souvenir coffee mug.
  It's a tough question to ask myself.
  
  

• quietone said on Jun 08, 2008....

  twyla ~ yes it is a tough question!  I did mean more along the lines of who person wise.. who are you.. what makes you -you?  If someone doesn't tell you this.  I would love to travel too.. (oh, I am shortly)  :) 

• wombat said on Jun 08, 2008....

  Ha....I would be....a blank slate to be filled with stimuli from the outside world.  Sounds like a movie!

• quietone said on Jun 08, 2008....

  wombie ~ LOL sounds like you might be catching a fungus (fungi) of some sort.. hahaha.... that would be a movie - oh, they already made one about that "28 days later."

• queenparanoia said on Jun 08, 2008....

  a queen...
   
   
  wait i am a queen!!! =)

• quietone said on Jun 08, 2008....

  queenie ~  LOL yes you are!  hehe...... :)

• skald said on Jun 08, 2008....

  Me? lol 

• MissMimi said on Jun 08, 2008....

   quilty, you gotta stop thinking such deep thoughts so early in the morning...

  I think I would feel more free to speak my mind and not worry about what other people thought.

  But, really I'm confused and I seriously need some caffeine.

• quietone said on Jun 08, 2008....

  LOL skald... yes that is a good start!  haha!

  Mimi ~ was it something I said?  LOL

• RollingC said on Jun 08, 2008....

  Sometimes ( I'm not a morning person ) when I wake up in the morning I need someone to tell me who I am....(it usually comes to me after awhile...LOL)
  Rc

• quietone said on Jun 08, 2008....

  LOL RC ~ sometimes I have to have someone tell me where I am!  And sometimes I don't want to know either.. who or where!!  I hear ya!

• Mr_Box said on Jun 08, 2008....

  I would still be me, because no one can really tell us who we are, can they? Only we know the answer to that question anyway.

• quietone said on Jun 08, 2008....

  Mr. Box ~ yes, most people do but there are a few that have "tapes" played for them their whole lives and they believe them.. like hearing "you are just so stupid" all your life... one grows with that in their head.. see what I am getting at?

• Mr_Box said on Jun 08, 2008....

  I suppose if that's what you're getting at, and I didn't have the residual effects of what people have told me I am, I would be liberated by that. I'd feel normal, instead of an oddball. 

• Fallyn said on Jun 08, 2008....

  who i am.
  
  only......exploring, instead of stuck in one place.
  

• CreativeWoman said on Jun 08, 2008....

  I would never be lonely again.
  
  CW
  

• mom said on Jun 08, 2008....

  I think I would be who I am when no one else is around

   

• truthsayer said on Jun 08, 2008....

  This question is "no fair" quietone. My first time on here in days and you ask the one question that still seems to haunt me. ; ) Even when I think I find the answer to this question, it seems like it is never finished asking. This is probably the biggest question I am facing right now...again.

  
  

  A few months ago, I was a wife and mother...a homemaker who was also a homeschool teacher, a writer, and all the rest of the stuff on my sc description. Now, everything has changed.

  
  

  Now, before I start sounding like Sylvia Plath, I'd better leave this post. Thoughtful question quietone....just not one that I can answer at this time. Sorry.

  
  

  You could ask my MIL or my estranged husband who I am though...it is doubtful they would be at a loss for a few choice words. : (

  
  

  Blessings,

  
  

  Truth

• truthsayer said on Jun 08, 2008....

  I have to go back and read about your upcoming plans with "visitors".  I hope I can still find it.  Tell polar and skald that I send my best wishes and warmest regards...will you? 

  Thanks dearone...I mean, quietone.  Both fit : )

  Truth

• bluegum said on Jun 08, 2008....

  quiet, i'd just little old me,if  anyone cares to read my comments to their posts knows me.though i would like to be able to riggle my nose and give some people a pain in the arse, give me a hot tip .

  blue.

• crybabylu said on Jun 08, 2008....

  i'd be who I am now.  Church worker.

• crybabylu said on Jun 08, 2008....

  That is really all I want to be, is helping others.

• uniquely-ironic said on Jun 08, 2008....

  I'd be an artist who lived in a large ecclectic loft by the ocean.  I'd have friends running in and out of the place day and night.  Hopefully a friend who liked cooking since my other source of food would be ordering in a lot.  I'd love to have the freedom to truly indulge my creative side.

• hinana said on Jun 08, 2008....

  i like this question. makes you think.
  i think id be...when im around certain ppl i dont have to think about what kind of mpression im makng, or if i look stupid or whatever..i think id be that person, but all the time.

• woman said on Jun 08, 2008....

  One joy of being a little older is being free to be who you really are and having had the time to figure that out. So, right now, today, I would be who I am. Tomorrow that might change. Still evolving.....

• woman said on Jun 08, 2008....

  One joy of being a little older is being free to be who you really are and having had the time to figure that out. So, right now, today, I would be who I am. Tomorrow that might change. Still evolving.....

• Fallyn said on Jun 08, 2008....

  UI.....i'll be the friend that cooks!!
  i want a loft by the ocean too!
  

• quietone said on Jun 08, 2008....

  Mr. Box ~ yes, liberated is a good word.  :)

  Fallyn ~ who is making you "stuck"?

  CW ~ I don't like lonely either, but who is keeping you lonely?

  mom ~ LOL I like that answer. And what stops us from doing/being just that?

  Truth ~ Yes, I think it is a hard question to really look at and have to answer. 

  blue ~ so you are lil'ole blue?  cool.. I don't have any hot tips though.   some people are their own pains in the arse methinks! 

  cry ~ nothing wrong with that!

  uniquely ~ what stops you from being just that person?  I'd like that myself though.

  hinana ~ I like your answer.  I would like to be that way too.

  woman ~ yes, we are ever evolving aren't we! 

  fallyn ~ well as much as I don't like to, I'd do the dishes LOL

   

• medena said on Jun 08, 2008....

  I am 24 and I don't know yet.

• quietone said on Jun 08, 2008....

  medina ~ well that is a definate honest answer.  :)

• tom2000 said on Jun 08, 2008....

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   i think the drinking is a very bad habit .

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• cuppajava said on Jun 08, 2008....

  Not sure - i am still trying to find the real 'me' - so many experiences have shaped my life,and the more experiences i have the more complicated i think it gets......!

• mom said on Jun 09, 2008....

  Quiet- for me it is the fear of ridicule or displeasing people.

• moyz said on Jun 09, 2008....

  honestly i dont know who i would be...

• wombat said on Jun 09, 2008....

  I'll be thinking more about this today at work.... good post!

• quietone said on Jun 09, 2008....

  cuppajava ~ I could use a cup a java right now!  LOL  but life is always changing yes.

  mom ~ I am going to try to exlpain something here in a bit.

  moyz ~ I think most of us feel that way.

  wombie ~ have fun, I thought about it all last night at work..

• quietone said on Jun 09, 2008....

  okay, I am going to try to explain what I think here.  Why I asked the questions I did when commenting.  Who is keeping us from who we are, who is stopping us from what we want to be?  The answer is simple.. it is ourselves.  right?  If someone calles me stupid.. that is their opinion.. it doesn't mean I have to pick that up and wear it.  If someone says oh, you wont ever do that.. why should the persons remark stop us from doing that very thing... like writing, or painting.

  We have to have faith in ourselves and who we are from the inside. I have to believe that who I am is what I believe.  As humans, it is our nature to look for respect and acceptance from the outside...most of us do.. there are a few rare people that have found the key to looking inside themselves to find this...

  Once you accept yourself, and know who you are, then it is easier to get what you want.  It should not matter what someone else thinks or does.. they own that.. you own what you believe.

  Go out and be who you want to be - the person that is inside waiting, the one that you hide away at times.. go out and get what you want.. work toward your dream, don't let someones comment influnce you into telling you its impossible..once you think that.. then it becomes so.

  Well, that is my 2 cents out of all this! 

  Who would I be if nobody was telling me what to be?  I would be true to myself.. and my dreams.  (I'm not there yet )

• scipio said on Jun 09, 2008....

  To be or not to be. That's the dilemma.

• quietone said on Jun 09, 2008....

  scipip ~ haha that is a good one!!!

• uniquely-ironic said on Jun 09, 2008....

  There is that small matter of money.  Let's face it, lofts by the ocean aren't cheap and though I'm happy to create without worry of selling, in the RW some money has to be involved.

• quietone said on Jun 09, 2008....

  uniquely ~ I knew you were going to say that! LOL.. but if you look at Bill Gates .. he started making programs in his fathers garage as a kid... where there is a will, there is a way.  I should listen to myself!  LOL

• uniquely-ironic said on Jun 09, 2008....

  I know Bill Gates tries to come off as a middle class background kid, but the truth be told, his parents had bank.  I think in my case it's a matter of persistantly making choices that lead toward the goal and hoping I get there while I'm still breathing. ;)

• quietone said on Jun 09, 2008....

  yes, I think that is ture.. if we are at least persistant and strive for what we want.. we will get there.  thanks uniquely.  :)

• wombat said on Jun 09, 2008....

  I thought I had gotten back to this, but I was wrong...

  I loved your explanation of the question....I just wish I could live it.

  You know I grew up being told I was stupid and worthless---through words and actions.  It still has a hold on me.

  I so want to prove them all wrong.  And yet, it is me that will get the satisfaction out of that--not them.  More to ponder.....

  But I guess there is a "me" in there somewhere.

• moyz said on Jun 10, 2008....

  great explanation Quiet...you are 100% responsible for your own actions....

• quietone said on Jun 10, 2008....

  wombie ~ You know I grew up with the same verbal abuse too.  After a while one just starts believing it.  sad to say.  It is hard to break those tapes, but it can be done.. and we just have to learn not to take on someone elses opinion.. that belongs to them!  Oh, so easy to write it..... LOL

  moyz ~ thanks moyz.  It is hard not to pick up what others put out there for us though.. and that is what has some of us stuck.  We have to be like the little train that could...... "I think I can.. I think I can..... I know I can ...... I DID!!!  :) 

• oceanwaves said on Jun 10, 2008....

  quietone I was going to agree with some of your comments and agree this was a hard question, but actually it isn't, but it is a good question; however in reality each of us can only be what our abilities allow us to be.  PEACE-DL

• quietone said on Jun 10, 2008....

  oceanwaves ~ I agree, and we  are the ones that ultamately set those abilities... or inablities.

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