It is almost 7 years since I last had a formal interview of any sort. I am completely out of practice of describing myself to others.

  Does anyone really listen to, or remember a self-description?

How would you describe yourself to someone?

People are so busy making their own judgements and assessments of the person they see before them.

I care less and less what people make of me as I get older. First and chance encounters are just that. Repeated encounters build a more accurate, nuanced portfolio of my character traits.

I can think of people who have quite the wrong idea of me. But their narrative suits their purpose. Others perhaps know me a little better than I know myself.

I always think people, myself included are a lot like Avocados. Their core values and attributes exist within the enormous seed, but the pulp changes and develops over a lifetime, while the skin just slowly ages  but shows evidence of the good times and the harms that shape the whole fruit. The skin of course, is all that is ever seen until a sharp knife is applied. Time to halt the avocado analogy I think.

My Life as an Avocado- the autobiography I will never write.