Autobiographical investigation; self identity

Male 49 year old student:
Being a mature role model for younger students
Feeling out of place sometimes when all around you are younger kids in tutorial sessions
Being segregated from the majority at university into a mature crowd
A kinship with the mature people
People thinking that I have intelligent opinions
Having the capacity to think more rationally than younger students
Not thinking about fashion and labels so much
Thinking about family rather than thinking about running after the opposite sex
Having history out in the real world and utilising the skills learnt to help with university study
Being asked by younger students to solve problems
Different responsibilities

Strong:
I don’t get bullied
Feel good in my skin and like the look of my body
I am going to marry my lover, she is a feisty woman

Sensitive:
Not the normal male who gauges everything on male prowess
Feelings are hurt more easily
If people criticism me I take it on board and hurt more
Can feel peoples pain more
Sensitive to the feelings of others
Sensitive to sound, smell, light e.g. background noise, smell of people
I get stressed if more than one person is talking, or feel overloaded concentrating on more than one thing at a time
I can tap into my emotions and get afflicted by them more easily
Physical: When I massage I can connect with their body…get a big buzz through my body
Emotional: Expressing emotional thoughts
Feeling alien to others
Passionate: The sound of music makes my emotions shiver with delight
I feel the hurt and delight etc of the characters in an Opera or DVD

Creative:
Able to express my emotions in words
A lateral thinker, shifting away from thinking patterns that are entrenched or predictable
Intuitive
When reading I can visualise the scenes as though I’m there in person and feel what they feel.
Inventive enough to solve design problems and real life situations with unique solutions

Passion for music:
The sound of opera music makes me shiver with delight
I want to sing and connect with my inner self when singing
My emotions connect with my singing
I take on the character state of the emotion
I feel great when I sing and it lifts my day when I feel down in the dumps
My persona is enriched with the sound and actions of song

Romantic:
I love to hear the sound of birds, the rain on a tin roof and grass under my feet
Make love in a forest
Watch the branches dance to the rhythm of the wind
I love to Sing out of my heart, that melts the heart of my lover
Hug, spoon, and caress for eternality with my lover
I am devoted to my lover even when she stabs me in the heart
I fill the house with the aroma of coffee while she is still sleeping

Poet/Writer
Express my emotions in words of love, sadness, delight etc.
Commune with nature and the world on many levels through pros
Have a good grasp of English to communicate
Visual writer
Creative bent
Have an emotional core I can tap into
Thinking outside the square