The thought of writing about one's self has always been a bit of a dilemma for me personally. The act of sitting down and selecting things to identify with one's personality never really made a lot of sense to me. As human beings living in Canada in the 21st Century we are blessed with the choices of tailoring our lives in any way we see fit. To choose a career, to choose a home, where to go to school, to have a family and so on. At almost any given point in our lives we are faced with decisions that can have a slight impact or completely alter the directions of our lives. This is my conundrum, as human beings our minds aren't static, they are eternally growing, evolving, changing. This is why I have such trouble with this question. I can't write about who I am, because there is no telling what the next chapter holds. In previous years, I have participated in basketball, volleyball, soccer ball, hockey and swimming. Although I enjoyed all of these and was reasonably successful with all of them, I stopped doing them. Not because I didn't like them, but because I had accomplished all I had wanted to with them. Until a priority that I have committed to is completed it is difficult for me to move past it, it will stick around in my head, give me anxiety and will just be a pest. However, in contrast to this, once I achieve my goal I can occasionally drop it and not think about it again for days, weeks maybe even months. This doesn't occur because I don't care, but rather because there are simply other things to do. Something else to move forward to, something else to accomplish. Once I gain an interest in something, I become dedicated to it (obsessed is the word my mom would use) Once I master or meet my goal, I move on find something new to get into. I feel this is the main reason I don't have a hobby. I can't really continue learning or doing something with a passion once I've reached a certain level of progress in it. This is also reasoning for why while most people's portfolios may contain how they wish to live their lives, what career they wish to pursue, what city they wish to live in while mine contains a window into my mind. Of course I'm still young and my views will change but that is my point, they will change. So before I write about who I am, I need to find who I am. The few things I do know about my self are that friends and family are extremely important to me, I want to be engaged with my career while still making enough money to support a family, I want to make an impact on the world, I want to help people, I want to be a good person. Fear is a natural response of the unknown and I am kind of scared at the fact that I don't where to go after graduation. What I will want to do 6 months from now will certainly be different from what I will want to do a year from now. However, I feel the characteristic of becoming dedicated to things I have interest in will aid me in which direction I decide to lead my life. Just because my mind exists in the way it does now, doesn't mean it will by the time I get ready to move on to the next chapter of my life outside of highschool.