I think I feel like a writer all the time, simply because writing is the only thing I feel I'm any good at, and it's always going through my mind because I have nothing better to think about. Almost all my waking thoughts revolve around my stories, my characters, my plots, my future ideas, or at least around the things that interest me and which eventually make their way into my writing. I read a book and I think of my writing. I see a tree and I think of my writing. I feel lousy and I think of my writing.
I feel very isolated because all I think of is my writing, whereas most normal people seem to have lives aside from that. I've actually gotten very despondent in life because I want to make friends, but in order to really feel close to somebody, they'd have to be interested in my writing too simply because it's such a part of me, it IS me. When people chatter with me but aren't in the least bit interested in my writing, or like to read my writing but aren't interested in knowing ME personally, it hurts, because to me the two are inseparable. To be friends with me, one has to also be friends with my writing. To not be interested in it, that tells me one isn't interested in me, either.
And in life, people usually don't go about seeking to befriend both a person AND their work. But I AM my writing so I have no idea what else to do. I don't really feel a connection to people who don't care about my work. Why should I? Considering how much time and thought I spend on it, it's seriously the only "friend" I have. It's me.
This digressed somewhat, but this is why I feel always like a writer, more so than I should. There are times in life when one shouldn't feel like a writer, or like a plumber or a doctor or whatever, at least, if they want to carry on a normal life of any sort. Unfortunately I have no idea how to do that.