During my sixty-nine life journey, I have assumed many identities, some conscious and others discovered. I was a baby, child, and teen, but I didn’t identify as such. Then. I identified as a Young Adult falling in love, social drinking and dancing, and making money. Still, it wasn’t until I shifted into my late middle years that I attached identifying markers to my Life Path:
Baby = neurological wiring and basic downloading
Child = augmenting and applying survivor skills
Teen = the beginning of the suppressed emotional expression, an alluring dark time influenced by drugs, alcohol, and creative vision.
Identities are highly regulated by era, social awareness, and the need to support a chosen lifestyle. Using alcohol and drug influence led me on a path of decision — would I be a good person by taking the sober path and passing on the good person message, or would I choose to follow myself into the dark passages that all great artists find themselves on at some point?
I followed myself, which meant rewilding old identity stories, and then I moved into identifying Roles.
I assumed a Business Owner Role in my Young Adult years, though I didn’t know that was something to be aware of. As I shifted to the Middle Years at 44, I consciously embraced the Business Owner Role…
