Carrie Link

WHAT ARE YOU?

Back in the days when I was teaching elementary school, my principal asked all of us at a staff meeting, "What are you?" Most of answered, "Teachers."

"No," she said, "that is what you do, what are you?"

Years later, I still ask myself, "What am I?"

A mother?

Wife?

Daughter?

Cousin?

Sister?

Friend?

Without all those relationships, what am I?

What is the big picture? Why am I here? How will this universe be changed because I have lived?

When all is said and done, I think I'm going to go with my first answer, a teacher. And as any good teacher will tell you, we teach what we most need to learn.