“You don’t define yourself by what you have to do to make a living, but by what you want to do. You’re a writer. I’m an artist.”
(Charles de Lint’s Memory and Dream. p., 275)
I love this author, because his writing is full of small epiphanies. Think of this. You define yourself by what you WANT to do, not by what you do to make a living. You may be an inventor who spends all day unplugging toilets, an actor who waits tables, a corporate executive studying for your junior high math exam, or a champion figure skater who works as a bank teller during the day.
At some point, dream must meet reality or you will feel very unfulfilled. How do you define yourself.?
Shawn L. Bird 