If someone was to ask you to describe yourself, what will you say? And if others describe you, will you accept their description?
I came across this quote from Wentworth Miller and I thought it was interesting. “My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in and day-out. The quote that’s helped me the most through this is from Toni Morrison’s Beloved where she says, ‘Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.’ So I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don’t particularly belong.”
Who are you? Who am I? And should we care how others define us or want and expect us to be?
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