I’ve come to the realization that we all have a conglomerate of personalities that make up the whole of us. Say for example, you like tennis, you wouldn’t say that you’re a tennis player, but maybe you could say that you play tennis. There’s a part of us that is a tennis player inside.

And yet, when I’m with family, I suddenly find myself acting a bit childish. Whenever I’m at the table at a family get-together, it’s like being in high school all over again. That’s like the child in me.

And what about when I’m at work, very serious, focused, and very fast paced. That’s the work me.

And when I’m writing, in tuned with my creative self, tapping into the writer inside of me. That too is a part of me.

But in the end, it doesn’t define me, it is the sum of all these parts that define me. It is my love of family and the relationships that I have, it is the writer, the tennis player, the reader, and the engineer, the love of mathematics and science, and the uncle, the boyfriend, and a son… It’s all me, all of it.

I think we all have diversity within ourselves. It’s amazing at how much you don’t know about a person, until you find out the other aspects of that person. The person you work with, ask him or her, what they do outside of work, their family life, I would bet you a million dollars, that your perspective of that person will change almost immediately.

We can really never truly know a person by just the hat that person wears day in and day out, because truth be told, we wear different hats for different occasions, and that is the beauty of being a complex person. We aren’t simple beings that can be defined by such things as what we do.

Even our experiences have that tendency to also make up what we are. That is why we often hear about life changing experiences. We seem to be the same person before and after that experience, but in all actuality, the experiences we have are a very big part of who we are as well. It can change our focus and change our motivation, and even change our outlook of life.

In the end, let us look at ourselves as unique and defined by a multiple of variables. The possibilities of us are limitless.