“Who are you?” is a question that doesn’t have a simple answer.
Stating the kind of person you are and what you’ve done is easy.
But “who you are” is defined with your every action and choice.
I am a good student who likes video games and art.
I am part Irish and part Italian.
I know the kind of person I’ve been.
I know the kind of person I want to be.
“Who you are” is constantly changing making any attempt to answer “who you are?” almost impossible.
hmmmm, I have mixed feelings about your monologue, Nick. Maybe it is because it sounds to me a little self-contradictory at some points. I know it was easier for me to understand it when you presented it in front of the class but seeing it makes we wonder if you are talking about introspection or looking inwards. Yes, it is not an easy request to comply with but you kind of answered it already when you said that you were a good student, etc.
Feel free to reply back so that you can clarify your meaning. Nice picture (are you on a plane headed somewhere & if so, where to?).
Keep blogging and please comment on other posts.
this makes no sense.
I know the kind of person I’ve been.
I know the kind of person I want to be.
this implies that you are in fact, aware of your past and present.
“Who you are” is constantly changing making any attempt to answer “who you are?” almost impossible.
who you are is answered with ‘i am…’ thus pertaining to the present. there’s no clarity in your distinction between ‘the kind of person’ you ‘are’ and ‘who’ you ‘are.’ also the definition of who you are envelops around the kind of person you are. therefore ‘who are you’ is an answerable question and you’re leaning towards impracticability when answering the question rather than impossibility.
my train of thought screwed up somewhere as i was typing in the tiny box. anyways, it’d be nice if you could elaborate further.
Looking over my monologue now makes me realize that I should have spent more time working on it. That way I might have noticed the bits that did not make as much sense as i had thought when I wrote this. Just adding a few more lines to this would have really helped because I can see now that what I was talking about could have been made a lot clearer. As for the question of “Who You are ?” in my monologue, one of those lines I should have added would say although we know a bit about who we are in the present the consequences of what choices we make is also part of who we are and because we may not know the consequences we can’t answer the question accurately. I feel that the line wouldn’t fit well as it now but saying something like that in my monologue really would have helped. I also shouldn’t have used lines with “I am” since those definitely contradicted my monologue. That is something i should have caught. This was one of those things where I had a good idea of what I wanted to write but at some point I lost my train of thought and my monologue suffered because of that.