WHO AM I?

As an educator please consider the following thoughts:

• The poem is about the real answer to “Who Am I?” Most of us think identity is our name, our job, our face in the mirror. This poem says – no. Your identity is what you leave behind in other people and in the world.
• Furthermore,  it is about who he is and how he affects the world. Jimmy Osborne is answering the question “Who Am I?” by saying: I am not just my body. I am my impact on others which is what we do on a daily basis
• You are more than just yourself. Your real identity lives on in the people you touch, the love you give, and the small marks you leave behind.
• Do not measure me by my achievements. Measure me by the hearts that I have touched and the footprint I leave where people can find me after I am gone. This so pertinent many years after we have left an institution from both the pupil and educators’ perspective. The quote “ Your pupils will forget the theorems , the history lessons but they will never forget how you made them feel ‘ [UNKNOWN ].
• Your identity is what you leave behind in other people and in the world.
• You are more than just YOU.

‘I am more than merely me’

• You are the hearts you touch, the air you breathe, the thoughts you think, the things you see. You are bigger than your body.
• You live in others.

“You can find me in the ones I love”

• People will find you not in a photo, but in a goodnight kiss, a hug, how you treated a stranger, how you made them feel. In small, soft moments – ‘ in butterflies and lightning bugs’
• You are both joy and pain.

“From the smiles I give, to the tears I cry”

• It is honest. Identity is not just the happy Instagram version. It is the laughter, sighs and the tears. It is being human and authentic.

“I ask that you remember me, As a memory inside your mind’

• The final message is very simple and humble. When we reach the afterlife, we do not need fame. We just hope someone, somewhere, still holds us gently in their mind.