Welcome to a new week on Things Unseen.

When someone is asked and who are you, there is more than one way to answer, isn't there?

You could ask that question and be completely satisfied with the answer, I'm the plumber.

Actually, in the United Kingdom, plumber seemed to be very difficult to get, so perhaps

if someone says that to you, you're ecstatic.

But in a different situation, you might not be satisfied with that kind of reply.

You might say not, I mean who are you?

What's your name?

And even then, you're not satisfied just with a name.

What you really want to know is the person himself or herself.

The question you're really asking is, what's your character, what do you like?

If I get to know you, what am I going to discover, should I trust you?

Will I like you?

Will I want you as my friend?

And of course, what a person does, what his or her name is, what their character is

like, all of that is involved in answering the question, who are you?

And then the answer tends to determine the kind of relationship we have with them.

And in turn, how we answer someone else's question, do you know so and so?

People often ask me that question, do you know so and so?

I don't mean to be awkward and irritating when I sometimes reply, well, it depends on

what you mean by no.

And even when the answer is yes, I know them.

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