What image do we portray to the world around us?

I smile a lot. I laugh a lot. It is what people say they notice most about me. My attitude. I have plenty of it and it comes out even when I don't want it to. When I am tired, I whine. If you disappoint or hurt me, I cry. When I am angry I swear like a sailor. I am very emotional, I can't help it, that is just the way I am. I certainly don't have a poker face. I have no ability to be deceptive and I can't lie worth beans. I have a tendency to collapse into hysterical giggles if something amuses me. I am very honest, strongly loyal to those who are loyal to me, and an optimist.

I have dark green eyes and long dark lashes. My eyes are my best feature maybe because they also reflect the emotions that I am so well known for displaying. My hair is fine and very long. Although I am inching up on fifty it is still dirty blond. I am a little overweight but my curves are nicely balanced. My weight bounces up and down within a twenty pound radius on an almost constant basis. I would love to have my weight head downward, and stay there, but for the moment it just doesn't seem to be an option that I am able to attain. I'm not disappointed with my looks. In fact, considering all the aspects of my life that make me who I am, I am rather proud of my appearance.

Although I was extremely shy as a child, as I have changed during my lifetime, I have become very assertive. I have drive and determination. I am a moral person, but just as everyone else does, I select my priorities and determine the importance of my beliefs.

I look like your average person on the street. I look like every other person out there. But I am not. I carry a secret.

My secret is a rare illness, it waits in the depths of me to steal away everything that I am, and everything that I fight so hard to be. No one knows. I look like every other person out there. I just look like me.

My illness causes me to be extremely fatigued which is most likely the reason for my inability to control my emotions. I spend the majority of my time exhausted and wanting only to crawl away into hiding so I won't have to deal with all the little details of life. Of course that isn't possible so you'll often see me out there ranting at my car for not doing what it is supposed to. Or laughing insanely at something cute that someone or something has done. I'm really not crazy. I'm not quite to the point of being certifiable. I am just me. My personality may be a little too vibrant for today's world, and I may be a little on the edge most days, but that is just who I am. I have a whole lot of personality and I am not afraid to use it.

It is just who I am. It is me.

How do you define yourself?

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