This question certainly resonated with me. What is me and what is the bipolar? What would I be like If I didn't have bipolar? Would I be more like the manic happy go lucky full of energy person who can conquer the world or would I be quiet and subdued, scared of life? Would I simply be "normal", neither high nor low?

I have concluded that I will never know. I believe I have bipolar, it is not me. It is something that I live with that causes me to act and react in certain ways. If I didn't have bipolar I would act and react differently, in the same way a person with a broken leg would walk different if their leg was not broken.

But as for your question, I know the person I would like to be, but being that person is as much a fantasy as ever win the lotto. Learning to live with or being bipolar is just a fact of life.