Who are you? This question sounds simple, but our answer has profound implications for how we see and treat both ourselves and the world. Most of us have a very quick response. We give our name. I have a name, sure – Chris Agnos – but what does that really tell you?
In corporate society, it is customary to create a resume to tell people who you are. This resume portrays information related to our skills and capabilities, validated in the form of accomplishments. What have you done that can be quantified and put down on paper? After all, your employer doesn’t want to hire a human being with hopes and dreams of their own. They just want to hire someone who can perform the job.
I reject that. Each of us is so much more than our quantifiable accomplishments. I believe we are a sum total of all our experiences and relationships, which form the basis of our world view and our understanding of what it means to be human.
To truly answer the question of who I am, I felt the need to write a different kind of resume – a life resume – that begins at birth and continues to the present day. You cannot truly know someone without knowing their experiences, and so I present to you, in the spirit of full transparency, my life resume.