Who Are You ...

Who are you when nobody's watching??

I saw that as a question in an article about being retired, and it brought up a few thoughts. 

We seem to be defined as different things throughout our lives.  We are child, student, boy/girlfriend, fiancé, wife. Those are simple roles, and then there are the ones created by our jobs, maybe some volunteer work.  

All these roles keep us busy, they keep us concentrated on so many tasks that we are busy doing, rather than being.  

Finding time for ourselves, to be ourselves, takes balance during the busy years. But we can focus and be a different version of ourselves once we are retired, past the busy day to day, and do the things we always wanted to do. 

But only if we pay attention.

Its time for me to pay attention!