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The very question, 'who are you?', or 'what defines you?' as genuinegirly put it it in another recent thread grates me.
I have never felt the need to apply a set of adjectives, functions and goals to myself, and feel that many people experience a certain degree of anxiety when they try to do it for themselves.
I just do what I think and feel is right for me as much as possible. I am pretty open and though some things, sexually, don't at first appeal to me, if I am curious at all in theory, I may go ahead and try them.
Most people are so worried about belonging to a certain social group or a certain set of values that they forget to just listen to their own mind above all else.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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