i am what i am!

India
October 23, 2009 5:03am CST
hi everybody.please write anything that comes to your mind for the above topic.This topic was given to me while i was doing my masters by my professor.he gave this to know my personality...I wrote what all came to my mind in about 3 to 4 pages.I was not the only one but the whole class was given this exercise.based on our response our professor gave the internal marks for that semester.I just wanted to try it in mylot.if anyone is interested please write your views...thanks.
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12 responses
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
24 Oct 09
With all respect, it sounds to me like your professor ran out of ideas. I cannot imagine anyone grading such a subjective exercise. Well, I am NOT what I am. I am what I strive to be. To be nothing more than what I am is like inertia, a human being going nowhere. In my view we are put on earth to make progress, for ourselves and for our fellow humans. I have heard people excuse laziness and failure (and selfishness) by saying "That is just the way I am" and I resolve never to be that arrogant. Inside my own mind today I am what I will be on the outside tomorrow...or the next day, or next year. I do not look back to yesterday or do as some say we should: live in the present. I live for tomorrow, by doing what I should today, every day. LOL, I am weird, huh?
• India
24 Oct 09
No Drannhh, he is a Phd in Psychology and his paper has got very good recognition.He actually handled organisational Behaviour paper for us.All his lectures were simply superb and very informative.may be he would have evaluated us on how we would behave in an organisation in future after learning something from his lectures.I respect ur view but my professor is not that kind, he really thinks out of the box...its quite a tricky topic..as you can see this topic has made many of our friends to respond.none of my previous discussions got so many response so quick.and also if you can read all thier responses, you can see how each one of them have interpreted the topic..some feel it is stupid and some feel it really interesting...this is how human personalities differ...
@syankee525 (6261)
• United States
23 Oct 09
i am my own person with own thoughts, i am not rich but i am welathy with love, i am a very respectful person to all even i dont like them. i am real not someone who's fake. i am a loving and caring person. i am a father, husband and grandfather. i am a man who want my two only kids to get along. i am a good friend who's always there for them. i am a uncle, i am a son and brother. i am a person who bleive you treat and respect others as you would want them to treat and respect you back. i am a strong person inside, i am a man who feel older then what i am. i am a person who makes fun of my own self.
• India
24 Oct 09
i like your expression...
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
23 Oct 09
manjalvaanam wow what a user name. okay here goes I am what I am. well I guess maybe some of my parents ideas may have rubbed off on me, but I think again I sort of x'ed out a lot of their ideas and came up with my very own. They,mostly my dad,said I was bashful and that sounded horrid to me. I felt so bad about myself growing up as my own parents thought I was that awful bashful kid. then I finally met a man who made me realize that bashful was just another rather mean way of saying I was shy. he thought I was really a pretty nice person. he said bashful was an ugly word so cross that one out of your vocabulary. Now I really am what I am, an elderly shy woman with a lot of compassion, a sense of humor, and a love of mylotting. These are the thoughts that just came into my mind. I am indeed just what I am, open and unafraid.
@Ruby722 (796)
• China
24 Oct 09
I am what I am ? an interesting topic.It reminds me of a video by a famous singer our country named jolin cai..Who I am? what kind of person we are..always be are serious question.But a few of us can relize exactly what i am..What i am,I ask myself this question.I just a twenty gril who has they own deam.who study hard and work hard,deam about someday can be famous and rich..Who i am.I just a young gril use my eyes look around the world it amazing me..I try and try know this wrold ..
• United States
23 Oct 09
I am and that's all I know. I hold on to this feeling of "I am" and I experience only one single entity. I experience one single consciousness within myself and everyone else. I can reach this also knowing what "I" am not. I am not my body. I am not my feelings. I am not my memory. I am not my mind. I am not my experiences. I am not my emotions..........and the list goes on and on. Repeat this I am like a mantra until the truth manifests itself. All cares and worries will drop away. The realization that you were never born or will never die occurs. Hard to describe and must be experienced to be believed. How do you think your professor would have reacted to that answer?
@anning (88)
• China
23 Oct 09
to me the first meaning is that walk my way and do not care what others say and do! to say is more easy than to do . in my class most classmates dislike me because of an illness that i do not know and can not get rid of . the illness can not infect others but very annoying . so if i can do nothing for the ill ,i do not care what they do to me and their reaction and i believe what i do is right inspite of others.
• Australia
23 Oct 09
I suppose I could write pages. I have been very happily married for almost 50 years, have five sons, all adult and happily married and five grandchildren, all healthy and doing well. To define the real "me" I could sum it up with the simple statement "In all things Jesus Christ has the preeminence". He is my Saviour and constant Companion and I live in His enablement.
@sblossom (2168)
23 Oct 09
When i read the statement on your topic, it reminded me one statement I just wrote about myself. it was I write, therefore I am. Because now my favorite hobby is writing both in Chinese and English. after six months of writing I can see I do get improvement about my writing in particular in English, but it's not enough. the more I write the more fun I can get from it. the more i feel I can write more. one day when I feel I have nothing to write, I would stop then. so far writing is my most enjoyble thing in my life.
@fezman (260)
• Australia
23 Oct 09
well... im funny (i think so anyway! and yea i laugh at my own jokes!) im kind, im sensitive and i do get angry easily (i hate that about myself, i think its because i can be very gullable) i love to laugh, sometimes just being here in mylot will fullfill that satisfaction for me easily, i work very hard, and unfortunately sometimes i play to very hard! arm.... i need more of a genre to talk about, because i could rattle on for ages!
@mrfdg1972 (3237)
• Philippines
23 Oct 09
wHO'S GONNA GIVE ME MY GRADE? First of all i dont agree with the slogan that you have there, I am what I am, For me it is "I will do my best for what i wanna be." There will be times that people fails, and if you say i am what i am, you accepted dismay, but for me failure is BOOK that you need to read on and understand, a book may have failures and victories as well. we only need to read further to understand our life's chapters and as you read the last few chapters it is then that you have truly understand the BOOK.
@jen20ixm (165)
• Philippines
23 Oct 09
I AM WHAT I AM, they say im a nice and sweet person and i do believe in that, im sweet in those people who's close to me, im a little bit snob to those arent, im nice but sometimes little moody, im work-caholic, love to work, love to stress my self, love challenges, love the due dates, love the long hour of work, but when at home, im a little quiet kind of person, love to watch movie with my family, love to eat, love to nap, love to sleep, love to relax, love to read books, hmmm,
@repented (80)
• Maldives
23 Oct 09
I don't get angry that easily,I work hard and try my best to stay happy...