Who Am I?

Here I am 40 years old and we are back to this question. It isn't as though it hasn''t been asked before, it is just now it is with a new  purpose. I have never been a person to dodge the hard questions in life. I also don't pitch a fit (as much) when the answer doesn't come the way I want it to or it doesn't come in my timing. The young seem particulary audacious about this. They get angry at God or whomever they see as the being that should be answering this for them. Some people ignore the questions altogether as an alternative to the sometimes painful answers (not a typo, the question has more than one answer). Sometimes we are just not ready to face these things.

But as someone once said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." 

This time I plan to be more methodical. I have a notebook and I plan to start by asking 'where do you want to be in 5, 10, 20 years from now? Always before I had to start with dealing with hurts, shortcomings, weaknesses, needing to forgive and get past stuff...I have done most of my walking on coals through those things. So I am going to ask myself (and probably others too) what am I good at, what do I see as my strengths, what do I ENJOY? What do I do to find purpose? How can that be best put to use for my family, friends and others? This year I am putting aside to find this.