Who am I?

If you are fifty you probably ask yourself questions like this very often, so you know very well that the question is very simple and the answer is very difficult. Therefore, if your teacher gives you this kind of homework, you can imitate Adrian Mole by saying: “just my luck!”

When I look at the mirror I can see a short middle aged woman, a bit overweight, with dyed short hair that still surprises me.

I can add that, during the last three years, I’ve lost part of my sight and hearing skills and I’ve completely lost my sense of smell too (so I use perfume just to please the others).

In my friends and relatives opinion I am quite nice (friendly, loyal, sensible and sensitive) although very obstinate and, sometimes, a bit distant and hot-tempered.

Moreover I love cinema and theatre, reading and listening to the music (I am very fond of jazz and Verdi’s operas). As a spectator I like tennis and basketball. I can't stand neither football matches nor heavy music.

Am I this person? Yes, but not only “this”.The woman of the past and the future determines the present one. Past, present and future (plans, projects) live together inside everybody’s life.

According to these point, when I look inside me I can see the happy little child, growing up in a village, and the upset teenager realising how hard can be the life of a working class girl in a public school. There is also the young primary teacher working in an isolated village and the shy one who arrived at the university of Barcelona twenty years ago.

Fifty years are all of these memories and many more. Who am I? Just a person, unique and irreplaceable, like everybody is.