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Well, you left religion as fair game, so that makes it pretty easy rofl

I am a servant of God. I believe that we were all created to serve God and obey his will, so before anything else, I appear before Him with total submission, surrender, sincerity, obedience, and the peace of mind that comes with knowing that everything, good and bad, big and small, that happens to me or anyone else, is specifically approved by Him (as in, He allows it to happen, either through natural phenomena or through the free will of other beings) to test us and give us the opportunity to accept His will, His worship, and His reward. When I am conscious of the absolute importance of this task and the stakes involved, nothing else can truly matter. If I am to succeed, then every action, everything that I partake in, has to be a means to this end. Otherwise, it was a waste of precious time. I am a Muslim.

As for what distinguishes my person from others that subscribe to the same values that I do, my best qualities are my empathy, memory, (in English, anyway. I tend to get in trouble in Arabic. Should I count being bilingual?) and my sense of fairness. My empathy makes me quick to offer help to others in need and to understand the context behind what people are really trying to communicate. Regarding my memory, I have memorized about 30 pages of the Quran verbatim, as well as most of Disney's Mulan. Because I tend to remember conversations with actual quotations and rely heavily on context for my understanding and evaluation of situations, and have a deep sense of fairness, I am often irritated by hearing others tell a story that I was witness to because I feel others are often misrepresented. The combination of empathy, memory, and justice make me an excellent communicator and arbitrator.

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I am a little blip of light in the darkness that surrounds me. I have monsters that plague me from the shadows. I am a devourer of words, a creative anomaly who spins the fabric of reality around me to suit my needs. I am the listener, an empathetic bystander, a pacifist amidst the chaos. I run off caffeine high and nicotine dreams. I revel in thought, am conscious of my existance in this great plane of reality called life.

I am a citizen of the world, rendered truly human by my connections to others. I exist amid a beautiful and complex web of interdependence. The choices I make are guided by a desire to do as little harm and as much good as possible, forever choosing the compromising gray. I stand firm in the beliefs that I do have though I do not hold others to my own rules and standards. I believe in a world of infinite possibilities where in the absence of logic exists a universe of untold wonder and vast adventure.

I fear many things, but I think what I fear most is the waiting place. I fear that someday I will find myself waiting for life to happen to me, stuck forever in a horrible limbo of uncertainty. I wish to forever retain a hopeful heart even as the world batters me with reality and bitterness bites at the broken bits of my soul. If in the last moments of my life I can look back and smile, this life has been worth every tear I've ever shed. I am forever and most delightfully and gratefully me.