Did you see that I removed my tagline? If you are new here then you probably did not see. But I did remove it. I had a colourful tagline that described some of me to the dot. But then I took it down.
Why you ask? Well, it spoke of all the things I thought I was, and don’t get me wrong, I am all those things and more. Writer, speaker, change agent…. and and and! I really am all those things. But, of late (I wonder if it’s not old age…) I find myself getting tired of all these labels that I used to describe a part of me. I also find myself asking myself if that part of me is still valid. If you have not done something in ages, does it mean you cannot do it again? No, it does not. If people have not seen you do something, does it mean you cannot do it? No, it does not. I am no philosopher, but I am just tired (right now, who knows about tomorrow) of all these labels and things we call ourselves which describe parts of us and never the whole. There is so much to a person, to me, to you, than just a label. Mother, father, brother, sister, wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, uncle, aunt, daughter, son, accountant, head of department, manager, analyst, speaker, writer, consultant, entrepreneur…. the list goes on and on and on and on.
Kinda like being in a box right? That is the only way you can really contain something, by putting it in a box. I do not want to be in a box anymore. I want to be unboxed. I want to flow, I want to be flexible, I want to explore, to colour outside the lines. I want to live outside the box, do things outside the box. Hopefully I am not going through a midlife crisis….
Call it the rant of a middle aged woman (feels weird admitting that I am getting old), but I do not have 1 label that I can use to describe myself and I am getting tired of all these labels. For a time, I just want to be Karabo. I don’t want think about how I want to be remembered, I just want to live and live a good life. Making good memories and just being myself. Boxes are too restrictive.
If you could live outside your box, what would you do? What wouldn’t you do? Who would you be?
I know I will be back and that I will update the tag line with labels at one point, but for now, it is just me, Karabo.