Describe Myself

Daily writing prompt

How would you describe yourself to someone?

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How do I describe myself. The answer to that question has actually changed quite a bit of late.

Traditionally the answer was really tall, really fat, really red. The really tall still applies. Thankfully for my middle aged hair the really red applies too. For now at least. I have to think the days are numbered on that front though.

The really fat piece of that though… after over 50 years I can’t really describe myself that way anymore. At least not outwardly so. While the gastric bypass surgery has had the desired effect on my actual weight, there is still the question of my mental state. I still feel like that morbidly obese guy I used to be. Is that body dysmorphia? Probably. It’s just harder to change my mindset than it was to change my actual weight.

Those are just a few of the things that define me enough that I would describe myself that way to someone else. There are other things as well. I’m a husband, a step father, a son, a brother, an uncle. I am a computer programmer. I play guitar, I like to mess around with photography. I live in Massachusetts and am fiercely proud of it.

I would like to describe myself as a good person, but am I? I see myself failing in that respect often. I hope that I have an accurate picture of myself, though they say that people who suffer from depression often have an accurate view of themselves while people who don’t often have a too rosy self view. I’m not sure what to make of that, but you can do whatever with it. I try to be a good human. Sometimes I pull it off. Sometimes I don’t. I guess I see the attempts as a defining characteristic of myself.

Really though, all you need to know is that I am really tall and really red and I used to be really fat. That should suffice.