Define

 What defines a person?

Their habits? Shortcomings? 

Their personality or identity. 

Is a person defined by their own perception of themselves? Or defined by how they're perceived by others?

Do you define a person by their appearance or body? Their taste in music? Their preference for certain things over others? 

Can you define a person by how they treat others? Isn't it a cruel irony that the nicest people are so harsh to themselves while the most malicious seem to never feel guilt or repercussions for the pain they cause others.

Do you define a person by their career? Their work?

Do you define them by their passion, their vibrance, their spark of life buring through the world igniting wildfires or carefully hidden and protected lest anyone throw water on the last shred of hope they possess

Do you define them by their character? The self beyond the persona? How often does this character reveal itself  and is it static or ever changing? 

Do you define a person by their ability? Their drive and desires, the skills they've acquired, the stories and movies and emotions they've inspired?

Do you define a person by their worth to society or their own self worth, their confidence and self esteem, or do you define them by how big they dream

Do you define them by their childhood? Whether traumatic or pleasant. Chaotic or structured, do you define them by the privilege they inherited or the obstacles they've overcome? 

Can you define a person by their empathy and compassion? Their virtue and grace? Or their apathy and malevolence, their depression or rage?

How do you define a human? With a lifetime to live, once you've given them a definition, they'll likely slip

Out of the noose of being defined.