What do you think about when you say the word "I am an awesome person"?

I think about what an awesome liar I am!

Awesome feels like really overused hyperbole. To me, "awe" is something massive that should shake your very being and happen only once or twice or maybe never in your life. By using the word awesome to simply mean "quite good" we've lost the language to explain things that are truly awesome.

This is probably a cultural thing, though. I'm English and we tend towards understatement. I remember asking a friend about his wedding and he said, "Yeah. Not bad".

I think about how it's not one word.

Somebody tried to a positive thinking thing with me recently and she was telling me to say "I'm a star!" and "I can do it!" I felt so uncomfortable and ridiculous. I just don't believe that I'm an awesome person so it's kind of like saying "I can fly if I want to!" It's just untrue.

I never say those words about myself.

I tell myself that every day. It leads to positivity in my life.