If you want to be a grocer, a general, a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know, you will never become anything, and that is your reward.” – Oscar Wilde
As a culture, we identify individuals based on their descriptors. For example, they are in marketing, an artist, a nurse, an engineer, a mother, an athlete, a lover, and more. In addition, most of us associate with multiple descriptors and roles characterized by nouns.
The title becomes an inhibitor in how we see ourselves. When we choose to be a verb, the possibilities are endless. Where does it stop? To be motivating, loving, or inspiring will provide one with an increased sense of purpose while opening up opportunities, meanwhile, limiting yourself to the description of a teacher or accountant will narrow your definition.
You can be a name, or we can be an action. You choose.
