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About Me — Harshy

Being a human, I’m a study in contrasts and I kind of like that!

Harshy
About Me Stories
2 min readNov 20, 2020

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So, I have a theory that while words are wonderful, there exist some concepts that are too big to be explained by words. The mere naming of them diminishes them. I believe that Humans in all their complexity, in the taking up of space and time, are EXACTLY this kind of concept.

With that in mind, let me try to tell you a bit about myself. Let us start from the outside and work inwards.

In my professional life, I am a media strategist to multinationals: a finder of patterns, a number to emotion converter, the curiosity machine; but also I’m the person others come to when they need a hug and a cup of tea.

Rubbing right up against my inner world are the ones I love the most, they grant me certain identities and avatars for me to wear: I’m a partner of a decade, a mother to two wild women, a distant daughter myself, a prickly sibling, an absent aunt.

Then we have me, alone.

I would like to say, “I am Brave and Smart and Kind.”

However, I know a better way to say it is: “I try to be Brave more often than Fearful; Smart more often than Ignorant; Kind more often than Cruel.” Knowing that moment to moment I cannot be just one thing or three things.

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About Me Stories
About Me Stories

Published in About Me Stories

A publication dedicated to bringing out the stories behind the writers themselves. A place of autobiographies. Types of personal stories include introductions, memoirs, self-reflections, and self-love.

Harshy
Harshy

Written by Harshy

Wrote in my youth for expression, Writing now for sanity. Read in my youth for escape, Reading now for grounding.

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