Everyone has their rehearsed “this is where I came from” story that they tell people that they’re getting to know, right? It’s usually a collection of stories and experiences that create some kind of baseline persona for the person across from you. I just told mine to someone last night.
I grew up in California, got my degree in mathematics from Boston, moved to Israel 3 days after graduation, and haven’t regretted it for a second. I started working in a startup as a technical content writer, did a whole bunch of marketing stuff there, learned Hebrew, and got into the world of software and technology.
I studied graphic design for a year on the side and then worked for a year as a freelancer doing some design but mostly marketing consulting. Now, I’m doing product marketing at Coralogix.
That’s my cookie-cutter ‘about me.’
The thing is though – I have so much more to say about myself. haha. Or at least one or two additional comments / open ended thoughts to share.
Something happened recently, I started to slowly peak my head above the noise of what I always thought people expected of me. And lately, I’m starting to actually recognize myself reflected back to me in the mirror and in windows as I walk down the street.
When I was in college, I wrote a thesis paper connecting the idea of infinity in mathematics and religion. The paper was a bit muddled, but the root of the connection that I was just barely grasping (and am still developing to this day) is the infinite expansion of knowledge, the general awareness of lack of knowledge, and the response to the inherent boundaries or limits of knowledge.
I’ve been working on a full rewrite of that paper, but the reason I bring it up here is really to say that I see my exploration of who am I, my identity, in the same way. Knowledge, awareness, and response. I am both spiraling inward to a greater depth and expanding outward into the world. I am aware that I will never attain some greater truth. Still, every piece that I put in place gives me an ecstatic feeling. I feel more myself than I ever have. But enough about me 🙂
I’m sure this is all wildly abstract for anyone else that may be reading it. Even in my head, it’s still lacking a certain structure although it seems to be coming together at last. I promise to update this as soon as it comes to me. At least, you should be able to understand at this point why I dislike writing ‘about me’ sections so much.
tl;dr –
I’m still figuring myself out. Right now, my interest is in developing my own sense of identity – understanding who I am. I suppose having a personal website is some way to consolidate different areas of exploration in that pursuit. That’s what you can expect to find here anyway, different representations of my mind and my perspective of the world around me.