Before any flipside there has to be a backstory – the story of what was, what happened, what the definition [of ourselves] used to be, and what can no longer be. A back-story eludes to the reason(s) why a flipside exists, but oftentimes poses more questions than answers and rarely reveals a direct cause of why one reveals their flipside. While the sum of all of what we’ve done defines who we are now, our flipsides define who we really are on the inside – the private things about ourselves rarely shared with others. My backstory is long – more than twelve years of blogging and writing recorded herein (and longer still, as I’ve been on this planet nearly 36 years) – but just yesterday I was still using these words to define (in summary) who I am… or was.
August 1999 – February 2012: This is was part of the story…
…about one geek’s life: A woman who is self-assured, but still sometimes feels like a girl. A human being who is not perfect nor lacking, confident, but sometimes reserved, outwardly courageous, but introspectively unsure. Someone who strives to lead, but sometimes follows, is happy-go-lucky, yet deep in thought, tough but emotionally fragile. A person comfortable in her own skin, but sometimes uncomfortable in society’s, and who just wants to be herself in this brief period called ‘life’ and to find others to share the wonderfully confused journey down a path less traveled.
Geek | Podcaster | Writer | Advocate | Possibilitarian | Social Media Practitioner | Road-tripper | CKD Survivor | Starbucks Addict
© 2012, Krissi Bates-Billings. (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
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