Who are you ?

Confession no. 2  when somebody asks me 'tell me about yourself, what kind of a person you are' I have no clue where to start and where to finish, what all to include and what all to dilute..and I don't want to be one of those people either who say things like 'its hard to describe who i am..etc etc' something on those lines, because frankly speaking its not hard to describe me.

So many times I wanted to depend on what the public opinion is about me and what kind of a person do they think I am but unfortunately I have heard so many different versions of me, from different people ofcourse that I am still stuck..

Some will say that you are a confident, talkative, outgoing and extremely funny (hopefully intentionally) person

Then there are others who would say that I am an introvert to the level of being labeled as 'arrogant'..the word bothers me the perks don't :-) and that I am very deep, spiritual, kind and detached..

And if those confusing reports were not mind boggling enough, I end up doing behavioral gymnastics right infront of my eyes..Its rather embarassing but even I can't predict how will I react or respond to any given situation so the innocent bystander is as clueless as I am if not more so!!

I can't even use simple adjectives like- caring, brave, sympathetic, good cook etc because the moment I say that I am lets say-caring..I remember a time when i wasn't.. which brings me to my other query that how consistent one needs to be to confidently use a particular character trait to define them?!

So in the final analysis describe yourself, and what kind of a person you are and all these simliar off the cuff queries look simple and obvious and first things that one asks, but the answers are usually superficial, so if you really wanna have a clear description of who the other person is, either wait till he turns 65 and hopefully he would know by then or better still -observe...because otherwise the answers are usually way off the mark or self depreciatory or self appreciatory...

So till I turn 65, everytime you ask me- what kind of  a person I am, I would say how dare you ask me an all absorbing, confusing, loaded,earth shattering question that forces me into a mental cyclone or maybe just to be a bit more polite (which is another quality with which I am consistently inconsistent) I would say hey I am a gemini, here's your copy of Linda Goodman, may you have a good read.