Look in the mirror of your soul and tell me what you see?

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(cross posted to my journal and transgender)

A recent conversation with a friend of mine, whom I only found recently out recently has an LJ account, has gotten me to thinking about how I see myself and why I see myself that way. My friend can choose to out herself or not.

“I am what I am what I am.”

When I think about who I am, I think of myself in two halves, my masculine side and my feminine, two sides of the same coin, complimenting each other. Perhaps it is because of my pagan background and my belief that dualities are intrinsic to everything, light and shadow, hot and cold, male and female. My friend prefers to think of herself as a balanced individual, she just is. Her belief structure tends to lean more towards the Zen Buddhist way of thinking.

The reason I bring the philosophical aspect, and granted I don’t know much, if anything, about Zen Buddhism, is to spur thoughts about how we view the world causes us to view our selves.

I am Rory. I am Amber.
I am her and I am him.
I am greater than the sum of my parts.