Diminishing Descriptors

  I am no longer anyone's granddaughter, daughter, niece, employee, advocate, lector or teacher.  Wife, mother, sister, cousin, grandmother still apply, but the tipping point approaches when these identifiers too become irrelevant, stripping away all but concept of self.  Maybe that's why people go to the gym, or into therapy of one type or another---to avoid being defined by one' s relationship to others.