This August, I was required to write a one-page essay on who I am and what I value. Naturally, I made a t-chart and started setting it up. My brother added a few entries to the “who I am” category, can you guess which ones?
Who I am:
- coffee addict
- overachiever
- blonde
- “independent”
- loud
- Catholic
- runner
- smelly
- a fighter
- a lover
- selfish
What I value:
- laughter
- faith in the face of corruption
- black gold
- alone time
- alone thought
- thorough, minute, compulsive work
- schedules
- humanity
- lists
- languages
- tradition
- dancing to ABBA in the kitchen
- honesty
- simplicity
Am I still all of these? Have I changed one bit? I know all my annoying living habits now because someone else lives with me. Am I still addicted to coffee? Yes. Am I still an overachiever? Sometimes. Am I still a fighter? Do I still love laughing?
I don’t think people really change at all. Not even for college.
