If you've read Elizabeth Gilbert's book "eat, pray, love", or seen the movie staring Julia Roberts, you will know that Liz spends a year "finding herself" while traveling through three countries eating, praying and loving. (Wouldn't we all like to be able to indulge ourselves doing that!)
At the end of the story Liz finds the word that best fits her - attraversiamo - an Italian word that means "crossing over".
It symbolises the struggle she has endured to get to where she is at that point and the new life she is about to start with Felipe - her Brazilian lover.
It got me thinking about what word best suites me. I wrote down lots of words that were all part of who I am but struggled to find just one that suited me best.
My shortlist consisted of: helper, artist, therapist, seeker.
There is no one word that envelops all those but I noticed that when you take the first letter of each word, you get hats - and I laughed at the simplicity and appropriateness of it for me.
As a woman, wife and mother I have worn many hats and I am sure I will continue to do so for the rest of my life. So hats is my word - not as romantic as Liz's but it's mine.
What's yours?
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