Family- girlfriend, daughter, sister, aunt, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, mother (of a kitten :) ) 35%
Activist- internships at Women for Women International and others, volunteer work, community engagement, listener 25%
Student- george mason, New century college, my study abroad experience to Philippines 25%
Political- left or... socialist 10%
State- American, voter 4%
Religion- spiritual, agnostic 1%
This was a more difficult exercise than I expected just because given percentages to how important something is to me made that concrete. I found myself switching family and activist around several times, but have family first mostly because of my loyalty to my girlfriend. She has a wonderful family, so i included extended family in that piece as well. Activist, came next just because of what I do with my time and what I want to do with my life and that is incredibly important to me. Student is one of my favorite identities, just because I do love school and I especially love New Century, I credit NCC for having made my college experience as fulfilling as it has been. Political, State and Religion all sort of tie in together for me, but decided to keep them separate for numbers sake. Political gets 10% because I would say that I am a political person- a lot of the issues that I am passionate about would be eradicated to a great degree if the politics around it were right. Since I have some issues with the state and religion, such as not letting me get married when and where I want to, they are last. :) That's actually interesting because i'm obviously staying somewhat loyal to the state, in hopes that it will change, soon- since I haven't moved to another country that allows same sex marriages, but then again I don't have the ability to pick up and move like that for that reason...
I agree that determining the percentages was very difficult. I kept having to change around the percentages after I kept remembering more and more stuff I had to add!
ReplyDeleteI like how you put the state/religion last because they don't allow same-sex marriage. It's hard to stay loyal to something that isn't loyal or respectful to you, but it is good that you still have hope for same-sex marriage becoming legal. Let's hope people can stop being ignorant and allow equality!
I completely agree with your blog! I love that you have family first as well! I also had a pretty tough time though with the percentages but knew that family would take up most. I love that you put extended family also as I value the closest ones to me very much..I 100% agree with you on how much you put for school..I love NCC and feel that I have taken so much out of each class that I have, the interactions with people and activities open my eyes to so many things. I enjoy the discussions and group activities that are in each NCC class. great loyalty pie!
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