I think you did a pretty good job. I've actually been thinking a lot about my sense of self, what makes me me and really I suppose it comes pretty close to what my life is. Just a big tangle of experiences, desires, hopes, people, the vision other people have of me, the me I feel inside the spiritual streams I sometimes cross... I see a lot of women who define themselves in relation to their children. The kind of women who would use a screen name like Bobsmom54 or Momto7cuties and while I understand the impulse because my kids are a very important part of my life, they don't define who I am. Nothing really defines who I am and nothing really can define my life I guess. I'm still struggling with figuring out the direction I want it to take but I reckon we all do and while we struggle to figure that out it just moves on. /babble