Who am I ?

In life everyone has different roles. I, for example, am not an exemption. As a human I have to
navigate through a lot of roles. I have the role of being a student, a worker, a daughter, a sister, a
friend and if I continued; I’ll never end. All these roles I’ve learned to manage with time.
The way I navigate through all of these roles is by giving, each one of them, their time. Of course some of them require more time than others. For example the role of being a student is not only at school, but also at home studying or doing homework.
Now if someone ask me- “At the end of the day, who are you?” The way I’ll answer will be – “I am Mercedes, the student, the worker, the daughter, the sister and the friend. That will be my answer because all of those roles make the person that I am and they put a meaning to my existence.

My reaction to "Burges an I"

My reaction to this excerpt was one of amazement. The author has an internal struggle between himself and the person he is to the world. To the world, he is an accomplished professor famous for his writings and his accomplishments. His inner self though is a person that has a taste of ordinary things like coffee , hourglasses or topography. Yet the author sees that these things are being suppressed, mainly because of external pressure to be more like “Mr.Borges”. Little by little he sees that his identity is changing, that he is becoming more and more alike like Mr. Borges to the point that he cannot identify who he really is. In an attempt to please those around him , the author has given up the sovereignty of his soul and instead of being a typical person, he has morphed into Mr. Borges, who is the person the world wants him to be.