What markers do you define yourself by?

[Teacher Terry]

Horses are expensive. Here in horse country I have a good friend that realized that they couldn’t afford them anymore as they got older. They didn’t replace when they died and they live a long time. They also used to do mastiff rescue but big dogs expensive and they don’t live very long so quit when the last one died. Now they have 2 cats. They want to retire some day. For us it was realizing how much money we were spending on our 5 rescue dogs and vets here are super expensive. We have 3 now. I think sometimes our goals change out of necessity.

[bae]

I'm just, well, me.

Markers/labels depend so much on context and audience.

[Gardenarian]

I am a human being continually reinventing myself.

[Tybee]

I guess I don't understand your question; it seems like you are asking us to define ourselves by an external system of judgment, which is not something I am interested in doing.

[Tammy]

I’ve changed so much over the years. Eventually I decided I’m human, and that’s specific enough.