Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
Some of you may not know who the Vorlons are, especially if you have never watched Babylon 5. The Vorlons always asked one question, “Who are you?” How do you answer that question?
You can state your name, but does that actually identify who you are? Isn’t a name pretty much a label or indicator, just like a number would be, say your Social Security or Driver’s License number? Chances are it isn’t even unique, that if you google your name other people with the same name will pop up.
You can state your gender and your sexual orientation, but is that who you are? You can state your religious beliefs – Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Pagan, et al – but is that who you are? You can state your nationality or your ancestry, but if I say that I am an Irish/Welsh/Choptank/German who is a citizen of the United States, do you know who I am? You can state your race, but if I tell you I am a Caucasian, does that define me as an individual? What if you know what roles I fill, will that tell you who I am? I am a mother, step-mother, grandmother, cousin, friend, worker and I have been a lover, wife, daughter, granddaughter, manager, speaker – now do you know who I am?
I think not. What defines me as me are the choices that I have made and the way that I have dealt with the subsequent consequences of those choices. And I have to remember what those choices were and what paths I walked on my journey or I risk losing who I am. But if I am robbed my of memories by disease or accident, then who am I? How would I understand the story that I have lived? I don’t know, I would have to get to know myself all over again.
There were other questions that were asked: * What do you want? [by the Shadows] * What do you have to live for? [by Lorien] * Where are you going? [by Galen in Crusade] * Who do you serve and who do you trust? [by Galen in Crusade] But all that is a discussion for another day….
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