Tell me about yourself.

Think about it. I am sure you’ve been asked to describe yourself before, either in a job interview or on a dating website. How different would the words you used to describe yourself today be from what you would have selected 5 years ago? Or 10 years ago?

I recently came across this quote from the late, great Nora Ephron on another blog I read:

“We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.”

How would you describe yourself in five words at this stage in your life? I’ll go first!

10 years ago (probably): Smart, Hardworking, Mother, Photographer, Single

Today: Mother, Blogger, Weird, Meditative, Creative