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Originally posted by ARTelevision
I always think of myself as an animal.
I'm also somewhat aware that I am a human animal.
The human part is problematic, of course. The animal part, I like and understand quite well.
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I feel you on that. I guess my answer would be a Gollum (former hobbit turned slinky creature?). I like to think I'm something cool and versatile like a cormorant - they can fly, dive into deep water, and have fooled sailors into thinking they're sea monsters - but I'm really just a Gollum (minus the part where I'm controlled by evil powers).
I don't see myself as a specific tool, but as one in a general category - largely useless except for great utility in one specialized area. Something like corn-on-the-cob holders or a lint shaver. Again, I
like to think I'm a swiss army knife, but I'm not kidding myself.
My color is a no-brainer: I vary in a range of cool colors from a deep violet to a brilliant teal or aquamarine.
When I picture myself (which I rarely do from a 3rd person perspective), I am doing physical things that are firsts for me: diving to catch a fly ball during a high school softball game, finishing a 3.5-hour hike to the top of a volcano in 100-degree heat, getting a cactus stuck in my hand and not crying like a wussy, finally being able to pull myself out of the ocean onto a boat without a ladder, learning how to drive stick in an empty mall parking lot. I don't really picture myself in less specific moments.
On a school retreat last year, we were asked to pick one symbol to represent each of the three most important parts of our lives. One of mine was ice. Solid, but capable of existing in all phases. Sometimes shocking (to the relaxed), sometimes soothing (to the injured), sometimes just a delicious treat (to whomever).