Day 21: Labels

I label myself as a thinker. I love thinking about things that can’t be answered. I love thinking about why humans behave the way they do. I love thinking about the grey areas in life, rather than the black and white. Perhaps this is why another one of my other identity statements is that I am multidimensional. I don’t like fitting into a box and I love connecting with other people that show different sides of themselves. Thanks for the great reminder of that today band. We are tough, challenging, hard … and other times we are celebratory and filled with nothing but love.

I remember a team practice a few years back where we shared the top 10 things that we believe everybody should know. Here were my first three: I believe everyone should know how small we really are – you should know about space and life. I believe everyone should know the fragility of life. I believe everyone should understand time. These were are all apart of my identity that makes me a thinker. Questions like the following energize me: How much time has surpassed on the Earth? Why are Dinosaurs no longer here? How long will humans continue to be on Earth? How’s it possible that you could spend a lifetime traveling in a rocket and barely cover a fraction of the universe? Why haven’t we discovered life elsewhere yet?

I love to think about these questions. And I don’t expect other people to love the same thing, but this is who I am. I am a deep and big picture thinker. This label helps me make peace about my place in the world. What are your labels?