Or am I?

One of the mechanisms that Humans have developed to help and protect them on their walk through life is the ability to create and maintain several persona's, different personalities for different situations and people.

For instance at work I was a cool, calm, highly organised and efficient person, someone that others would turn to when they had a difficult client as I never lost my cool and could calm them down withn minutes, I would take the time to ask questions to verify that all on an account was up to date and that there were no problems. I was also the one that the other staff members would come to with any work problems because I had the patience to continuously explain things to them until they had it right. Yet, I rarely if ever socialised with the people that I worked with, apart from the odd lunch with one or two that I had a particular affection for.

The social me was different to the work me, the social me while still calm and collected was/is a little bit giddy, a little bit crazy and a lot of fun, which sounds contradictory but the calmness came if it was needed in a difficult situation, otherwise you got the flirty, funloving side of me, the chill out life is for living side.

There are quite a few other me's as well, the Mother, the Daughter, the Sister, each one requires a different approach and so a different persona.

The real me, the one that is underneath all those other me's, is the one that is reserved for friends, that is the me that will listen, talk, moan a little, bitch a little, give hugs when needed, a shoulder when needed, advice if needed, and always with warmth and affection. No matter what time of day or night, my door/phone/mailbox is always open. This is because I know that whatever I do for my friends will always be done in return.

So I am who I am, but it depends on where I am and who with as to which one I am at the time ;)