I'm Adely Moan and this is The Slowdown.

I've always had a hard time trying to categorize myself or figure out what type of person I

am.

I think yes, I am stubborn or yes, I am very flexible or yes, I am an introvert or yes,

I am the life of the party.

But what seems to be truer is that I am many things and those many things can change

and alter and unwind at any time.

This is a hard thing to come to terms with when everything seems to require a short synopsis

of who we are.

The world requires a summing up.

The world requires the cliffs notes, the tagline, the headline.

Under a Twitter handle, the bio reads Dad, Fisherman, whiskey lover or under an Instagram

account it reads transformational healer with a sexy profile photo or writer, publisher,

artist and lover of all things New Mexico.

And none of these things are who we truly are.

I want to resist categorization.

I was just thinking of a man I know who got sober a few years back.

Once you would have called him the funniest Velociraptor in the room, now you'd call

him the funniest panda.

People change and should be allowed to change.

When people have interviewed me, it's hard for me to see the headline or the hook in

the finished product because it always feels untrue.

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