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Stages throughout My Life
Kirby McCreary-Junker
This essay was written in my English 100 class with Sherry
Rind. The essay is a Classification essay and is in regards to
my life as a new student, mother and the beginning of my dirty
thirties. :)
As I move through the various stages and transitions in life,
I find myself wondering: Who am I? Can there be only one
thing that defines who I am or what makes me, me? I can
name off the top of my head many different titles or definitions
that could fit but like many of people out there, I am many
things all rolled up into one. This is what makes me who I am,
not one single definition or one category, but many all jumbled
up like a ball of twine. Together these things are what make
me unique. Every person has many roles that they play
through their lives, days, even from minute to minute. So
what exactly is it, what are some of the pieces that make
someone an individual? When someone looks within, what do
they see? I myself see a mother of two handsome boys, a new
college student who has been out of school for over ten years
and currently a single woman coming into her own, beginning
a new chapter of life in my thirties.