“About Me” is one of the headings for a project I am working on, cataloguing the lives of survivors who volunteer for peer support at the burn center.
Each member of the group was given the task of writing a bio about themselves, a few words to describe who they are, where they have been and what is important to them.
Summarizing one’s life requires a bit of thought, but I was struck by a very short but expressive phrase from one of the gentleman in the group:
I live to live.
Simple. Profound. From the depths.
Surviving a catastrophe brings it all down to the very marrow of what is valuable.
Life itself.
Another chance to make a way in the world.
Use the gifts we have been given.
To breathe.
To bloom.