I've been here for a few days but since I'm such a master procrastinator, I never had the time to craft a good introduction post. Tried once, a couple of days ago but my hands froze after few minutes and I entered my favourite hangout place... the writer's block.
I don't know why but describing myself is a very daunting task for me. This is the second time I've put some intense effort to describe & introduce myself.
So, Who am I?
Apparently, I don't know. I have no clue. Tried answering this on my personal blog a few weeks ago.
http://bhandariamit.com.np/aquestforselfdiscovery/
I don't think I got anywhere.
I've read many #introducemyself and #introduceyourself posts here and what I found is that the way we place ourselves in this universe and proclaim who we are, is vague, highly debatable and primitive.
- Some of us attach ourselves to the abstract symbols we were assigned to us at the time of our birth and derive our identity from our documents, origin or various tags offered to us by the society.
- Some of us derive the essence of who we are by analyzing what we do and what we have accomplished till now. We assign an identity to ourselves according to our actions, interests, profession, achievements, medals or certificates.
- Some of us define ourselves through the blurry recollection of our memories.
- Some of us like to represent ourselves with the character, principles, ideas and codes that we have programmed ourselves with.
- Some like the idea of imaginary beings like souls or spirits and some people rather prefer to tag themselves with their individual consciousness.
- Some of us even limit ourselves to the physical structure of ourselves and the projection in the mirror.
But in my point of view, these are all mere extensions of yourself. Some quite important and others quite insignificant.
Join me in a thought experiment and find out how you are defining yourself and from where you're deriving your sense of identity.
- If I ripped off your birth documents & legal papers and erased your identity from the internet, would you be still you?
- If I somehow snatched all your degrees, your skills, knowledge and your accomplishments, would you still be you?
- If by some accident, you altered or deleted your memories, would you still be you?
- If you encounter and experience a series of countless paradigm shifts, would you be still you?
- If you drugged yourself & brought down your consciousness level in a state of being half-awake and half asleep, would you be just 50% of who you are? Or would you still be the full version of yourself?
- If I altered your face through plastic surgery and exchanged most of your major organs and parts (except brain)... would you be still you?
One can get a clear & concise idea from where they draw their identity by answering these questions.
But the thing about one's true identity is that it's not a fixed & enclosed set of information that we limit ourselves to. Plus it's riddled with lots of philosophical dilemmas and unanswerable questions.
For example, If I describe myself here by selecting few of the above-mentioned parameters and create a self-image, that's my identity according to myself.
But what about the identity others create about yourself? Does their thoughts and perspective matter?
Or your self-created identity is the only one that counts?
And maybe when you're assigning yourself an identity, you're missing a lot of key information about yourself which shapes your personality. Maybe your parents, siblings or friends know more about you than yourself in some of the aspects?
In that case, the identity created by your near ones may be more accurate and you may be living your daily life without fully knowing who you are!
Think about this... A part of you is just trashed into some corner of your unconscious mind which you have no idea about, and it doesn't even make a difference in your regular life. Or maybe it can drastically change your life if only you would find your true self. I've met a lot of people suffering from inferiority complex and they often undermine their abilities and their true inner potential... and it decelerates them from moving forward because they're always embracing self-doubts and insecurity.
There's not a single authentic guidebook here on this planet which instructs us how to derive our identity. Maybe nobody knows who they are?
When asked to introduce ourselves, We desperately try and put ourselves in a little circle, allocate different views and opinions & create a self-image of ourselves; And the perspective that we have about ourselves establishes who we are in our minds and creates an identity.
But the circle, in which we put ourselves and stuff ideas about who we are, isn't rigid or permanent.
It's volatile. And the self-image created by you, which you are currently clinging to, is so changeable.
It might even change over a small tweet or a blog post like this.
It might change over a short SMS or an insightful video.
It might change over a message in a beggar's cardboard or an advertisement billboard.
You might even completely rewrite your identity over a small coffee conversation, a piece of serene music, an aesthetically pleasing art display or anything that you see & observe in your daily life.
There are just countless possibilities because the nature of the thought generation algorithms of our brains is chaotic and unpredictable. I would bet all my money on the behaviour of bizarre quantum particles than putting my chips in the nature of our thoughts.
And It's pretty useless to attribute ourselves to a certain set of information if you ask me.
Almost like writing with an ink pen on a running stream of water.
Why so?
Because neither your body nor your mind stays the same with each following second. You might have heard that within a span of 365 days, 98% the atoms in your body are already replaced with the other identical ones. And within a span of seven years, you will have completely replaced every particle in your body. So I ask you again... Fast forward yourself to seven years from this moment in time and ask, Am I still ME?
I love the whirlpool-metaphor of the great philosopher Alan Watts. It's like we are all just different whirlpools in a large river of spacetime, occupying small spots in different areas.
We all have a seemingly definite outer shape and appearance and although you'll identify a whirlpool being the same whirlpool 10 seconds forwards or ten seconds backwards in the time from the present moment, the water in the whirlpool never stays the same. On the molecular level, the constituents of the whirlpool are changing every nanosecond.
The whole point of this long rant is to say that the introduction I give you here right now stays in the blockchain for eternity, but it might be completely irrelevant just a few days later.
Maybe I'm just overthinking and taking a friendly introduction post too far and maybe I'm just too serious about this.
Or maybe and just maybe we should all keep aside a few minutes every day from our hectic schedule of our daily life, and contemplate about who we are and what's our place in the universe every now and then.
Because to find yourself ...
Is to unravel one of the biggest mysteries of the universe.
Just in case if you think I'm doing injustice with the topic 'Introduce Yourself', here's what my whirlpool currently constitutes of :
Hello, I'm a creatovert with an unhealthy addiction towards information.
I love to gobble up everything this universe has to offer.
I'm not an expert on anything but my friends consider me a live Google & Wikipedia bot.
My interests shifts from one subject to the other every week and currently, I'm trying to develop e-commerce sites for my clients from scratch with zero coding skills on my account and I'm also participating in various ICO events recently and learning about cryptocurrency.
I'm also learning a little about Digital marketing, Design Thinking and Autocad from various online resources every day.
I love researching for loopholes and hunting for opportunities.
I hate being told what to do and what not by self-proclaimed life experts so, I lead a pretty reckless life.
I'm also a chef... I cook up interesting stories and thought-provoking articles like this one:
http://bhandariamit.com.np/symphonyofinspiration/
I'm a mechanic too, I fix broken hearts and damaged spirits.
I like to call myself a contrarian thinker and an analyst; A psychological warrior set out to eradicate outdated thinking patterns.
I love listening to music with pumping beats. ( Join the #jukebox chatroom in PALnet channel in Discord and you'll always find me there)
I play football with my friends a few games every week and I also love sketching cartoonized portraits like this one in my free time :
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She's a foreign friend of mine.
I love connecting with people who are passionate about their life. You'll find me on most of the platforms by the username @creatovert !
See you again in next blog post. Keep steeming 😃
Ah! yes... I nearly forgot!
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That's me by the way.
This is powerful! I was going through my comments and found yours and I'm very glad I read this post, even though I'm late by a few days. This introduceyourself will be a difficult one to one-up. Definitely following you! Also, I miss Nepal!
Wow @cabernet ... welcome to my blog :)
Thank you for reading my post. I think I set the bar too high... this post gathered a lot of amazing responses and I doubt whether I can come up with something relatively good enough next time lol.
And thank you for following me back and resteeming my post!
Me too! I'm in India here currently pursuing a technical course on Automobile Engineering.
There are days when I just want to pack my bags and runaway at midnight from my hostel :D
Visit Nepal soon and make a Blog post about it here :)
Umm, I doubt this kind of work with so much creativity and eloquence is a one time thing.
I totally feel ya! For me, it's more than just one backpack and a bus ride away :'( haha
I can't wait!! :D
Looking forward to more of your posts!
Your response boosted up my self-esteem a little. Thank you :D
I have a few unfinished drafts. Will complete it and post soon :)
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Welcome! Looks like you're a deep thinker...nice!
Yes I love deep stuff @rebeccamorgan :) Thank you!
@creatovert Welcome. Loved the intro, unique and catchy. I'm sure you're not the only one who had the same struggle with getting their intro started. Extreme procrastinator here too, but working on changing that. lol. Your cartooning is pretty good! Looking forward to seeing more. Best wishes to you here!
- @splendorhub
Like this display. Good show.
Hello @splendorhub Thank you so much. I think I saw you somewhere in Discord. Are you in PALnet or SteemitBloggers?
Nora, I checked out your introduction post to know more about you. Is that your plane lol?
I'll keep on sketching and blogging here :) Stay tuned!
@creatovert I tried Discord but was having some issues with my account. My intro was so so... lol
The plane you saw, was mine...for pictures only :( you have yourself a new follower. Wishing great success here! Steem on :) - @splendorhub
Hahaha... I know you'll be able to afford one soon ;) And thank you for following me back :)
Can I nominate you for the 7 day black and white challenge? Is lots of fun 🤞😊
Thank you so much @splendorhub .
I would love to participate But Nora, I need to buy a good camera first. I will participate soon after a few weeks :) Thank you again for thinking me as a nominee. Do notify me about other exciting challenges like this. :)
@creatovert That's cool. I will have to let you in on my secret, I only use my phone camera :)(and) I'll be great to see what you photograph. Let me know! Best wishes to you always.
welcome to steemit! you are an amazing person and I hope to see more of your work here soon! From @jahangirbalti
Hey @jahangirbalti thank you :) I've followed everyone here who has left a warm response :)
I'll soon come up with another intersting post.
Wow. What an impressive way to talk about introduction.
I don't think that I myself need to identify my self. But when others think of me and want to know how to deal with me, THEY need all this identifications you talked about. It is not so much of a mystery, from my point of view. It's just crutches we need for we have altered our environment and now are stuck with split lives and professions.
As we live in a division of labor and process-divided society, we also have shared identities that are tailored to the space we enter. If we come to the office, we are office workers, we go to the doctor, we are patients, we drive on a picnic, we are picnicers.
In truth, of course, we're not all that, but who we are is actually much less important to ourselves than to all the others who try to assess us and become wise out of us.
Turn your view around and you will find that you have to know your prey like the prehistoric hunter in order to be able to assess its next steps. At that time you may not have given it a name, so maybe identity was much more fleeting and we were freer. Today, we are less free, but much more bound to estimation. Without any reference to a bound identity, you will find it difficult to judge a stranger in your sphere because you need a code of conduct to accommodate him/her. Without this crutch we would not be able to communicate well. Of course, we have exaggerated excessively, because we would be very frightened to meet someone who seems to have no identity at all.
My own promotion article can be found here:
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@erh.germany/pleased-to-meet-you
@vimukthi made me aware of this post.
Welcome to you and whoever you are!! :))
Wow... I find this one powerful and quite funny at the same time... :D
Your perspective is unique to view Identity as a tool. Fully agree with all of your points.
I just partially agree on this one though. When we just have the basic idea of someone, there's always something missing in an interaction between two individuals. It's just normal Q&A & dull shallow conversations. The crutch helps and gives us something to talk about but the conversation is meaningless. I think that if there's no value to be added, insights to be shared or mindsets to be changed... the words are a waste of time & energy. So, we may be able to communicate but the conversation is of low-value. I would rather keep myself zipped up than to participate in any short & shallow talks.
thank you:)
Have you made the experience not to care about the outer coat of a person (his momentarily taken identity) and looked through it? Did you sense his or her presence underneath small talk? Is it up to the other person to give meaning to a conversation or is it of more importance to encourage the other one to show what's deeper to see & feel within him or her?
What if you were always able to overcome the cruch from your side? Even to dropp all expectations?
For my part I rarely make this experience to free myself from the wish that other people make the effort to reach what is true for the moment. But when it happens, it's the best:)
Most of the time when I look through the small talk, I soon find dead hollow ends. It's very rare to find great value beyond the outer coat of a person. Like the character in my profile pic, I have a tendency to make people open themselves up to me. But People with great value inside them are rare. Most times I've met someone I've had a deep conversation with, there was not much of an outer coat to begin with.
what a pitty! But I guess you are on a good way to compensate that, as well as the rest of us who like to get in conversations here on the platform. This gives hope and the realization that there are more people than one might assume with what we are seeking.
This is the reason I'm so in love with steemit. We are continents apart in a crowd noise of 7+ billions and yet we connect.
That's something to ponder upon @erh.germany ... I don't know why but I almost automatically identify & judge people through their eyes and their tone of voice and that pretty much reveals everything you know... The gaze in their eyes and the passion in their voice pretty much describes who they are and predetermines my reaction. I might need to change myself though...
Thanks, @creatovert. As we as social beings swing together, my voice and tone would swing with yours, if we would get to meet each other physically.
When I encounter people the first time I would probably do some small (identity)talk in order to feel, listen and gaze at them and they would probably do the same, no? If I prepare myself to concentrate my best interest on them, it might change something. From superficiality and dishonesty to something more authentic. I guess that change only happens when I am ready for expecting the best out of humans. Of course this is no guarantee for a valuable encounter. But chances become bigger that my "service" may work.
In the end it's more of a habit one can learn to cultivate. I am far from perfect and probably won't reach the highest ideal:)
Thank you for your response. Learned a thing or two from you @erh.germany ... I'll try and apply that. I guess I just need to reprogram my habit then
Damn you does sound like my clone. Human relationships should only differ from business in the kind of value involved. Human interactions that doesn't carry value is a spiritual bankruptcy. One should keep spam out of their lives even while they are Away From Keyboard.
Not only identity but all knowledge including physics and mathematics are simply just Tools.
A is A because it's named that way and 1+1=2 because it's designed that way. In binary systems 1+1=10
I found out that my thinking aligns with http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Instrumentalism#Early_Instrumentalism
impressive way to introduce yourself , very good
follow you
Such a great and detailed post, makes one wonder ! Deep stuff.
Thank you so much @trev03 brother. This is just a small start ;) I'll keep diving deeper and deeper :)
That's the best Introduce Yourself post I've ever read - well done! perhaps we all need to have a few sessions with a psychologist to establish our own personal narratives before we write our intro posts? lol. Here's my intro, allow me to introduce you to one of my false selves :)
Hahaha... You're taking it too far lol.
Just checked out your post and followed you @kate-m ... you're so awesome :)
lol, you know I actually would love to have the money for a psychologist though! I've been reading loads about attachment theory and I peg myself as an avoidant-dismissive attachment type. Apparently it's one of the things that's typical, not being able to construct a coherent childhood and general life narrative. I always thought I had quite a coherent narrative of the idyllic middle-class childhood growing up in the wilds of the northwest of Ireland with twee parents exuding wholesome family values, but when you start to take a closer look you realise that it starts to fall apart and generally end up on its head. The happy family discourse that I swallowed for so many years was really a forced hollow façade masking what was an inherently dysfunctional emotionally bereft psychological war-zone overseen by at least one narcissist (covert introvert) who disguised as the perfect gentle soul. Maybe we're all just best just staying asleep and let those sleeping dogs lie!! (like the rest of my siblings do!).
Cheers for the complement - look forward to seeing more posts and swapping more comments - Steem oooot!
@kate-m
I wish I had the ability to pen down all of my overflowing emotions & chaotic thoughts like you.
It was a bit difficult for me to fully grasp your words since English isn't my first language; But what I understood from your narrative is that you had a rough childhood and dysfunctional family. I feel sorry for you Kate... I too have a dysfunctional family.
On average, more than eighty percent of the families in the world are dysfunctional so you're not alone.
And if you're kidding it's okay but If you're not, I don't think you need to visit any psychologist or psychiatrist because you're awesome just the way you are.
To quote something from my favourite show here...
" I don't think going to a rented office in a strip mall to listen to some agent of averageness explain which words mean which feelings has ever helped anyone do anything.
I think it's helped a lot of people get comfortable and stop panicking, which is a state of mind we value in the animals we eat, but not something I want for myself."
Some wounds are better when allowed to self-heal itself.
No I wasn't joking. My parents have intimacy issues so there weren't quite enough cuddles and words of validation to go around in my family, love was a finite resource and each new kid that came along stole the focus of attention of the Mother. My dad has always been emotionally absent and fed out complements and words of validation as though there was a need for strict rationing. It fostered an atmosphere of resentment, rancour, anger, paranoia and suspicion amongst my siblings. I think because I was the baby of the family I got off lightly as I didn't go through the trauma of another baby coming along and stealing the lime light. I don't harbour any resentment, whereas it seems to be the fuel that drives my older siblings.
A psychiatrist is a privilege and a luxury, but for those who can afford it I thnk it can serve a role and I wouldn't resent them it. It allows the healing power of the word to flow. I have been guiding my own healing through using words with friends, and consecrating with sacred plants, and practicing meditation. For me, if I were to have a psychiatrist, it wouldn't be to make me calm, it would be like a training ground to practice forming intimacy and the ability to be vulnerable in a safe place. Someone who's willing to sit and listen to me talk and so help me figure things out.
Somebody recently told me that nobody is 100% awesome. It's true. :) We were talking about magical mythical unicorn people at the time.
@kate-m ... I don't think we should be blaming our parents for scarring our memories.
When I was a few steps lower from where I'm now, I used to blame and curse them every day for damaging me psychologically and making me feel like a depressed soul lost in a purgatory.
But now when I think about it, it's pretty unintelligent to do so.
Because a bigger game's going on in here and collectively as a species, we're playing it very badly because the rules are blurry and incomprehensible and nobody owns a guidebook on how to live your life. Our ancestors tried hard to form order and contain the chaos by forming religions but now as I see it, it's a failed experiment (although a good one though)... the consequences of our little actions go a long way and we're never fully aware of what we're doing or saying.
If you just remove the individual perspective and think as a whole species, you'll find that the problems are within ourselves. We're triggering destructive chain reactions knowingly or unknowingly and like the 'Butterfly effect,' it's creating a whole different timeline than what it's supposed to be every second.
Bizarre events happen every day and some good too... and it links to other events and affects them. The outcomes of those events affect other outcomes and you never know when just a small action whether good or bad will create a huge impact and change the preceding timeline drastically.
When 7 billion people equipped with equally chaotic mindsets is crammed into a small planet, chaos is bound to happen. That doesn't mean the world is doomed. There's a good share of order too.
Although I feel sorry for both of us in landing on the wrong side of probability fraction, we should not let those destructive thoughts overcome us and unknowingly damage the upcoming versions of ourselves too.
Hope I made some sense, if not I'll come up with a blog post about this...
What I've found from my observation is that mostly a damaged person distorts the psychological state of others. And if you think your parents scarred you, just think about it for a second and ponder upon this question... Who scarred them and made them so insensitive?
This is a very good response and I wholeheartedly agree with what you are getting at. I actually don’t blame my parents, and for what I do blame them for I forgive them. But I see how they slot into the jig-saw puzzle of explaining the complexities of my family dynamics. I’m actively going through this investigative process at the moment and trying to see with clear eyes the true nature of so many past actions and words, and up to today really. They were simply continuing the chain, the domino effect of how their parents treated them and their parents before them and so on and so forth. I’ve done a fair amount of work with ayahuasca and during one of my sessions I travelled back to heal previous generations on my mum’s side, my mum, her parents, and back generations and generations, weeping for the pain and heart-ache that seeps the very soil in Northern Ireland. So much difficulty, poverty, resentment and grief. I don’t want to carry those parts forward any more, it’s a very bitter heritage many aspects of it.
It’s up to each individual whether or not they will continue their family chain of pathologies. It’s their own responsibility to be self-aware and decide what route they will take. If someone is a son of an abuser, are they destined to be abusive? Obviously not, some will make a point of not replicating their parent’s behaviour, others will slip into the perpetuating cycle, deluding themselves that they are different from their parent when all the while they become more and more like them. But sometimes to get to that point of conscious decision-making we need to rip the scab away to analyse and prod where we came from.
Welcome to Steemit. Rather new myself, lining up to do my intro post shortly.... Great post had me reading all the way down.
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Thank you @drewyboy...
I write philosophical shit like this :D
Followed you so that I can read your intro post :)
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Ha. I really enjoyed that intro. probably one of the best intros I've read. When you think about it were just energy, just an ever changing vibration. Thats some deep stuff. I love the whirlpool metaphor. It's good to meet you @creatovert, I'm looking forward to following you.
Thank you so much @derekrichardson ... It means a lot to me :) It's great that you're into philosophy too. I have followed you! You seem to be a real adventurer.
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@creatovert I am so overwhelmed with your introduction. I feel tempted to re write my introductory post again but my time is of great value. So, I'll rather let it be as it is. I wish you a happy stay on steemit. Now following you.
Followed you back @kingsolo brother. Thank you for your appreciation :)
Solomon brother I read your intro post and it's great too. You have a gorgeous wife and cute daughters :)
I have a few nigerian friends in my hostel here in INDIA :)
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Thank you for your warm welcome @kravtsova :)
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The introductory text so impressed me that I had to reread it several times. And it starts to change my mind with every word) Thanks for that. Indeed, it is worthwhile to think about who we are now, who we were and who we will be in a couple of minutes.
@amalinavia your comment beamed me up to the sky, I don't know why :D Thank you for reading it...
welcome to steemit! all the best in your work :)
Thank you so much @danielwong :)
Hello back atcha
@hiyo are you a bot?
This was awesome man! You'll killed the #introduceyourself thingamigo. I wish I had something like this before I had written mine. So so deep.
Yeah I love deep stuff man. thank you for reading :)
I believe everyone has a writer inside them and everyone has a story to tell. Followed you so that I can read yours @aussieninja
Hello Adam... you're the real @aussieninja man. Just checked out your video... so damn awesome... made the tough contest look like a piece of cake. Great job buddy. Enjoyed watching it. Are you participating again?
I'd very much like to! I didn't make it back onto Australian Ninja Warrior (they're filming right now) because I'm in the US at the moment and they couldn't take me if I didn't fly back for the 20 minute audition they were holding... so I'm concentrating on American Ninja Warrior at the moment. There are heaps of competitions in the US, so I'm training hard to see if I can do well in one over the next few months. Exciting, daunting, scary, awesome - it's all happening!
I really loved your post man, really excited to see what else you write about!
Yeah and I'm excited about your next video... In case I miss your post on my feed then please send me the link to your upcoming video here on the memo or in Discord please. You can find me by the name creatovert in discord :)
Hi @creatover! I'm new in steemit and I just read your post , I really like the way you wrote you #introducemyself becouse you didn´t have to use tags to show your thoughts and describe a bit who you are, this will serve me for inspiration !! thanks!!
@dayanaguzman Your appreciation and response means a lot to me :) Thank you for reading it... And since you're new here, welcome to Steemit. Join PALnet channel in discord and the folks will show you the way around here :) And write a intro post soon. :) followed you !
Welcome creatovert, the more time I spend here the more I think that the overall architecture of this platform is truly amazing.
Yes it's an amazing platform and it has a great community :)
Welc... hang on, you've been here ages!
Hello there, great job with the appreciator boost!
A hefty intro post this one, my scroll thumb needs a rest again now.
For me, anyones thoughts about you cannot matter and shouldn't be allowed to matter. To carry thoughts about thoughts is potentially very damaging to ones mental health - just imagine if you could hear them all!
Two names I think you would like, @tarazkp and @outerground.
Safe travels 😀
Thank you for introducing them to me sir.. Followed all three of you... Whoa their blogs are filled with awesome stuff. I think I'm gonna take a day off and read all of them lol :D
You'll need more than a day i think!
No worries, and welcome again :D
Hi @creatorvert ,
what are the things you esteem about yourself? You're such a well written person. And I understand that it's a weird thing to introduce yourself. But what do you like about your character?
I'm certainly a new follower of yours.
xx
Elena
Hi @elenahornfilm
Well that's another difficult question to answer because I don't like to self-advertise myself.
But To not answer your question would be rude...
So, just to list a few:
The inner narcissist in me is screaming out 99 reasons why I love myself for being who I am but I'll just stop here and end this comment! :)
Welcome @creatovert. Great to know a person that explore these subject about man's identity.looking forward to reading more on your upcoming blog. Cheers
@diamondray Yes thanks for your support and thank you for such a warm welcome. I'll come up with another post pretty soon :)
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Welcome to Steemit. Glad to have you here. You did such a nice intro post.
@jeanwandimi Thank you so much... I will continue posting interesting stuff like this :)
I love how you caught on real fast. :) Happy Steeming.
@jeanwandimi yeah I'm like that :D
Welcome to steemit, so glad you are here and writing awesome post already. I would invited you to the minnow support group, but I see you already found us :)
I see you're a msp idol. I usually do not get out of jukebox and I rarely attend msp waves shows so I never saw you there. I've followed you so that I can get notified of your upcoming shows. I'll attend it if our 'timezones' doesn't interfere. :)
MSP-rockstar Moreso than idol, but thanks 😜
Hello, and welcome to Steemit.
First of all, I love the term "creatovert." Did you coin that word, or did you find it somewhere?
As for having a fluid identity, that can be a good thing. In fact, life is fluid, so if we cling to a static identity, then that can hardly be called "living."
You are who / what you are is not only fluid, it is also very diverse – in one aspect, you are a body. In another, you are a mind. In another, you are your heart. ...
From your post, it is clear that you are not one to remain rigid. So, remain fluid, go with the flow, and let the grand flow of life take you where it will.
If you do, you'll have plenty to write about and post here on Steemit. Best of luck, and Full Steem Ahead.
I don't know how I came up with the word but when I thought about it, I was so happy that I came up with such a creative name for myself. Then I thought of changing my fb username and rename it creatovert. But to my surprise someone had already taken the name. Now I felt a little sad not only at the fact that the name was unavailable but also that someone had already thought about it. Felt like a copy-thought-cat.
I checked it out and the person to come with the name first had already setup a fb page, quora group, and a website full of amazing bloggers too. Unfortunately, Their site had some problems and they lost all the content in it and so they've abandoned it. But right now I've the www.creatovert.com domain in my possession and I'm trying to assemble the the previous 'The creatoverts' team alltogether and I'm thinking of adding some new amazing creatoverts too.
And Thank you for adding your insights to this thread. And yes I like to update myself quite often than to remain the same always. My life's a wild and reckless experiment and I just love it.
Well, that was awesome.
Good reads that leave you thinking deeply about things are really the best.
I'm quite new still, but let me give you a welcome to the site :-)
Hi @corinablondell ... Thank you for such a warm-hearted response.
I checked out your introduction post. :) Followed you instantly...
Welcome to steemit ... And keep steeming...
Oh, you're so kind!
Well, I hope you find something interesting in my future posts ^-^
I'll make sure to check your blog as well. Your writing is really great!
@corinablondell Thank you for your compliments... :)
You have produced a very interesting and unique introductory post. Welcome to the steem community. I am looking forward to eading more of your posts. Upvoted, following and esteemed.
Thank you so much @cecicastor for resteeming my post. Followed you too :)
Welcome! I'm quite new myself, having joined just today. Great introduction. Will try to get my intro up here soon. A lot of things I've been thinking of also and you have written it so well!
Welcome to you too @rcfuhrii :) Followed you so I can read your intro post. Write soon :)
Wow that was a great post! I'm new here as well. :) Welcome to Steemit.
Checked out your artworks and followed you... Masterpieces! :)
I'll start here with my Discord daily duty. Thanks for the warm reception @creatovert :)
Thank you so much brother @inalittlewhile :)
Welcome bro. Nice thinking by the way. N is that Sun temple? @creatovert
@kaushikworld You got it... high five... :)
High five. I wanna visit it someday. @creatovert
It's an awesome place buddy... Must visit before you die... :)
Sure bud 😛
I will come over your place too.😎
Where are you from? @creatovert
I'm actually from Nepal buddy... But I'm here on India studying a technical course... @kaushikworld
Nepal's on my bucket list too. I do need to go Kamar Taj🙄😋😂
welcome to Steem @creatovert ! Nice Post ! I hope you enjoy here ! I will give the vote to you, please follow me
followed you @arvindkumar ! Thank you!
This was very deep for me. I agree with you about the self identity part, and feel like I only hand-picked some extensions of myself to introduce who I am. While I still feel I covered a lot, should I have covered more? Is one introduction post even enough? I could literally describe myself and who I am for hours but it would describe these extensions of ourselves that you mention. Due to my spiritual belief, I will always be me, but definitely realize it's a different me. It was only recent that I found out we renew our whole bodies every 7 years or so. Am I the same me now that I was 7 years ago? No. Absolutely not in any way shape or form. I'm older, for one, but I didn't even know what a bitcoin was 7 years ago. I didn't have my own business 7 years ago or a kid. Infact, 7 years ago today I didn't even have a job or income. So much has changed, that I am certain I am not the me I was 7 years ago. I am me now, a different, more improved me. Always learning, always changing. Sometimes life is shitty for me and depression kicks in. Does the life experience that made me depressed change me on the spot? If drinking a cup of coffee can change you, a bad experience most definitely will. I'm still new here too so I want to welcome you, and thank you. I've had writers block for 2-3 days now. Still do, but this was definitely thought provoking. Thank you chef!
@bitfiend glad you loved it... Too many people just skip the post because most of them have short attention span and it's too long. And you're also the first one here to not only read my post but also draw your own opinions and actually think about it... like I said in the article... You actually took some time and thought about it. That was my main purpose here... to encourage people to embark on a journey of self-discovery. Absolutely love it when I meet like minded deep thinkers like you! Thank you so much!
To reply some of your comments...
" While I still feel I covered a lot, should I have covered more?"
-> It's a philosophical dilemma like I said before... I'm not sure whether to breakdown all of my extensions and find the core or integrate all of my parts and find the whole! Both seems pretty impossible.
"So much has changed, that I am certain I am not the me I was 7 years ago. I am me now, a different, more improved me. Always learning, always changing. "
-> Following Alan Watts' Metaphor... You're the same whirlpool... Only the water in you has changed.
"Sometimes life is shitty for me and depression kicks in. Does the life experience that made me depressed change me on the spot? If drinking a cup of coffee can change you, a bad experience most definitely will."
-> While I'm neither mature enough nor knowledgable enough to provide you an accurate prescription, I can tell you by my personal experience that Stress isn't bad as most people want you to believe. Most of the insights, ideas and profound thoughts I have come up with were when I was severely depressed... Stress forces creativity to explode and speeds up the idea-generation process. I know it's harmful to a certain limit but it isn't bad or unnecessary. If it was, evolution would have kicked out that feature... That doesn't mean that I'm recommending you to dwell in self-destructive thoughts...
Wrote all of these just because you mentioned you're depressed. Hope you're doing well. Just hang on there tight and don't let the tides wash you away and I assure you you'll find a way to escape from that misery. I just found mine this week.
And the thing about 'change' is, you have to embrace some of them for your own good and reject a few of them to stop yourself from becoming who you never want to be. Always monitor conflicting thoughts using your consciousness.
Eagerly waiting for your blog post. Do notify about it when you post it :) I have followed you!
Thank you for taking the time to respond! This is one thing I love about steemit. The in-depth engagement that goes on. This is something the world seems to have lost during our technological advances. With so many txt acronyms and emoji's, where you're left to only so many characters to express your thoughts and/or feelings (like twitter), it's like everyone has forgotten how to communicate and hold meaningful conversations. While this mostly pertains to the internet world of things, you still see the occasional couple on a date with both their faces buried in their phones. There is a level of disconnection, for such a connected society, and I feel that this platform really brings out the best in people.
Not to say that I am depressed now, even though it has been a pretty crappy month, I am doing well and looking forward to the holidays. What you say is undeniable, it's not exactly unhealthy to experience stress or depression. You brought to my attention that during times of stress I do indeed explode with creativity and ideas. While harmful to limits, there is a balance for everything. Without bad, we wouldn't have good, because is hard to define good if it has no opposite. Balance is necessary. Certainly hanging on during this crazy ride we call life. It is most certainly an unpredictable roller coaster. These things build character.
Feel free to check out my intro post: Here
Unforeseen circumstances have kept me slightly busier than normal this week, along with a tad bit of writers block and lack of a good camera. On the plus side, I'm at 100% voting power for the first time (just a silly achievement) and I vote like a premature baby minnow! Let's hope santa is good to me this year! Take care!
The first paragraph of your comment totally reconciles with my thoughts... I actually have an unfinished draft about it and most of your lines are pretty much similar to mine.
These so-called 'social apps' are making people more anti-social.
"it's like everyone has forgotten how to communicate and hold meaningful conversations. ' -Totally agree with it...
I read your story. I see you had a fair share of ups & downs but that's life... the greatest adventure you'll ever have.
I'm just 21 and I know I have yet to walk the trail you've nearly completed but I can give you a tip... ''Never stop experimenting and exploring new pathways''. It will pay off in the end with a great surprise.
I see you have an entrepreneur mindset and I respect you guys a lot. Making bold moves, taking risks and not conforming to averageness is a trait that'll beam you up in no time.
I wish you good luck on your future endeavours... :)
Thanks and good luck to you too -- I look forward to your social app post. You are indeed young but that's a good thing. While you might still have a lot to learn, we can all learn from each other since we all take different paths in life. Experience is the best teaching tool, and things you've experienced already I may not have experienced yet. Have a great day!
Thank you @bitfiend brother... I keep on jumping from one task to another and I have a quite crammed up schedule. But I'll try and finish it soon. See you in next blog post. :)
this is a pretty interesting post :D ceateovert
I agree! Awesome stuff
@conradsuperb Thank you kind sir :)
Thank you @younggirl :) I love writing philosophical content like this!
Welcome to steemit. You have a great introduction. I love this part: "I'm a mechanic too, I fix broken hearts and damaged spirits."
Also, you are a very talented person, i like your sketch. I would like to have such a talent!
It should have been better if you posted more photos with you in your free time.
Finally, my recommandation is to put a photo of you on your profile. Have a nice day!
Yeah @allesia you're right... But I'm that kind of person who likes to take photographs of nature rather than myself :) Also I'm not very fond of selfies...
And thank you for your appreciation :)
You should take more selfies because you are good-looking :D
Wow... thank you @allesia :) <3
Welcome to Steemit!
Thank you so much @vieira :)
I love deep, philosophical stuff. Followed. Welcome to Steemit. :)
Thanks @dospordos ... followed you too :) keep steeming
Thank you :)
Nice to meet you!
Love your thoughts on identity, and the things we hold onto as "self." If it's not ideas, beliefs, membership in groups, or even the physical particles that make up our being, then what?
I've recently bumped into the idea of "essence," that being the unchanging piece of a human or any living system. This isn't something you can measure or point to, and it's not the sum of the other pieces. In fact, it's probably best defined as precisely that which cannot be taken away without changing who you are.
Essence manifests as our core values and abilities. Not skills which can be learned and lost, but the underlying capability that supports those skills. We can express it in how we dress, what we create, and who we choose to befriend.
It can be hard to see, with so many labels and categories claiming to represent ourselves and others. But sometimes, we get a little peek, a little feeling, a revelation about the others we are surrounded by. Reading your post was just that—thanks!
Thank you @scottyeager ...Those are some thoughts to chew on to..
I see you're a deep thinker too.
I've followed you. Checked out your profile and it was empty...
Do post something thought provoking pretty soon :)
Will do :) Thanks!
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