all five horizons

One of the things that took the longest for this new site was the ‘about me’ section on the home page.  Generally, I hate having to fill in the profile section online.  They seem to be everywhere: MySpace, Good Reads, Wordpress, Flickr, Etsy, Twitter - they all want you to describe yourself so that the world can see what kind of person you are.  I get it, you know.  I understand the importance of it.  I myself will choose to follow someone on Twitter or subscribe to their blog if I like what they say in their profile (though this is by no means the only thing I will go on).

But when I am asked to write about myself, I get stuck.  It’s not like I am shy or secretive about myself.  Anyone who knows me knows that I am pretty open and if anything, I share too much.  My problem is that I don’t feel like I have anything in my life that defines me.  My job, which I am really enjoying, is not really something I want to define me:  VAT reclaim agent is hardly very sexy.  The person I am to other people: wife/daughter/sister/friend/auntie, these are all very generic and I don’t feel that comfortable with being defined in that way.  Plus the one thing I want to be is not on that list - if or when I can add ‘mother’ maybe I will feel differently about that.  So that just leaves what I do.  How I spend my time.  And this is where I start to realise how half-assed I am at everything I do.  I am a part-time everything.  I am an ocassional crafter.  I am a sometimes reader.  I am geeky but not really into it enough or knowledgable enough to wear the badge with any authenticity.  I write but only on my blog which is not really writing.  And that is when I realised that whilst I couldn’t come up with a nice catchy list of labels to descibe myself, this whole blog would have do that job for me.