So who am I? Well my name is Amanda and I am 29 years old and will most like be 30 before anyone other than my little sis ever even knows about this blog.  But who am I?  This is a question that I feel like I have been asking myself for a very long time now. It is almost like my passions and hobbies are not who I really am and to some extent there is some truth in that statement. I have been giving this a lot of thought recently as I have felt kind of lost in the world and that everything I am doing is not good enough.  But I have stumbled across a thought that has made me start to look at this differently, so here goes…..

First, I want to say that I love running. I will never be able to fully explain what I get out of it but it gives me confidence, strength, freedom and life. There is much more but will save it for another time. In the last year and a half I have started running a lot of marathons because a friend of mine is running one in every state and I figured why not. So I currently have run 20 something marathons but have never once claimed it as something that ‘I’ want to do. It is like I have taken the position that I just inherited my friend’s goal without thinking that she could just have inspired me. So first I want to state that I am a runner and I love to run marathons.

Also, I am a civil engineer that does transportation design. I am a PhD student that is currently taking some time off this semester to decide if I am in school because it is something that I want to do or if I am just doing it because another one of my friends went back to school and I thought why not. I am an older sister to 2 sisters and an aunt to 2 nieces and 2 nephews that I love to death. I am also an endurance athletic that enjoys biking and to some extent swimming in addition to running. And I am passionate about young girls and women knowing their worth in this world.

However, probably most importantly, I am a Christian. This is the area in my life where I have probably struggled the most with knowing who I am. I have believed in God for as long as I can remember but have felt that something was missing. I realized recently that God has a purpose for my life but he still preparing me so I need to focus on a personal relationship with him and in His timing I will know if I am in Him which to me is the most important part of who I am.

So the knowledge that I have stumbled across recently is to own, embrace and enjoy who I was and who I am currently because this is me.