On What a Life is For and Finding My Voice March 6, 2006
Posted by Yvonne in Distinctions, Dynamics of Resistance, Word in Action, beginner blogger.2 comments
In my first Master’s level course, it was “Management 101″, the professor opened the evening asking us to provide some basic background info on ourselves, including the answer to: “What is your most important value?” He used to ask: “Who are you?” but it didn’t net much useful response because people were simply too young to answer.
When my sister was about 15, she worried: “I just don’t know what I want to be when I grow up!” So I gave her the professor’s take on it:
“Don’t worry; you’re not anybody yet.”
Being “in the make” is a tough spot when all that’s around you is pulling for a two-dimensional answer (What? No business card?) to a clearly multi-dimensional question. It’s probably best to put off the answer for as long as you can. (more…)
