What Does You Do You?

True identity, a very important thing to know and figure out. A very difficult complicated thing to figure out but a very important concept to learn it is worth the hard work. Only when you find true identity you can be your true self and know who you and your real friends are. Are identity affects our actions and what we do, identity will sometimes be hidden behind a mask and some never take it of but there will be others that have the courage to show the world their true self. April had hard time fitting in and had a different mask on then others, Hercules was having a hard time as a teen but then realized his true wish what he wanted to make of himself and what he wanted to be.

A person’s identity is formed based on a variety of different factors. Every day, each individual on this planet is currently developing the elements of establishing an actual identity. An identity can be built through culture, family, friends, personal experiences, aspirations, interests, and even genetics! Some aspects tend to have a greater impact on creating a persons’ identity, and other aspects tend to have greater importance in a persons’ life than others. These factors are what make each and every one of us unique. Since the day was born, our parents have contributed significantly in developing our identities. Their guidance and better judgment have to lead us to become the human beings we are today. Not to mention, some of our

What makes your identity? Is it your past, your family, your hopes, dreams, fears? It is all that and more. Your identity makes up who you are. It is always growing and ever-changing. Your identity is what makes you human. Finding it can be a struggle, maintaining it can be even harder. Katniss and Peeta in The Hunger Games were two examples of finding and holding onto your identity. Katniss was the girl who had to grow up to fast. She had to learn how to provide for her family, to be strong. Katniss thought to do this she had to create a wall to hold back all the childish things that were apart her. She put on a mask to grow up but to also protect herself from those who would wish to abuse her innocence. The mask, the wall they kept her

Individuals’ perspectives, communications and behaviors are affected by various combinations of elements that impact their personalities, for instance: genetics, culture, time, education, society, and how they are raised. At early years identity development is shaped by everything that they come in contact; however, in the adulthood each individual chooses, rejects or simply accepts those influences to guide their lives. For that reason, through the formation of identities, people are the most important and influential because they help to achieve personal, emotional and educational evolution/growth. Commonly an adult’s identity is influenced by total strangers to them; however, it can also be influenced by known persons they least expected. Therefore, someone younger that has been in their lives regularly, or even someone that seems less capable and had no physical interaction might altered their identities gradually and significantly.

When we first enter this world we enter as blank slates, we have yet to become the person we are meant to be. However, as we progress through life we begin to experience both negative and positive experience which help form and shape us into who we are. This process is called identity formation and although it was believed the process of Identity Formation ended once one entered their adult years it is now believed that Identify Formation continues throughout one’s lifetime (Broderick, P. C., & Blewitt, P 2015). The situations or experiences that individuals will experience throughout their lifetime will usually vary from person to person. However, the situations or experience an individual goes through is grouped into 3 categories age-graded,

The concept of identity begins in communities like school, home, and workplace due to the influence of family values, friends, and coworkers. As children, they mimic whatever

As a person matures and develops over their lifespan, their sense of identity is constantly evolving. Regardless, if their outlook on life is optimistic or not, people yearn for those feelings of fulfillment and wanting to have served a purpose in the world. While some people believe that they have found their niche early in life, the rest are often still on the fence about where they belong and who their “true” selves are. Nevertheless, one cannot help but wonder what purpose does having an identity serve if societal influences continuously seeks to transform it. Literary authors like Franz Kafka have spent most of their lives trying to find the answer to this and relay it in such a way for their readers to understand it in their works.

Identity consists roughly of what makes us unique as an individual and different from others. In other words, it is the way we see and define ourselves, or the network of values and convictions that structure our life. To an extensive degree, it is simpler to change our identity than controlling it in terms of fashion and social media aspects. Identity is an ever-changing process that begins as soon as we are born. Erikson (1980) stated that the social life begins with each individual’s beginnings. When we are born, we enter to a world with statuses that are already attached to us and are clearly defined by gender and race. As we grow older the decision we make, the people we keep close to, and the way we spend our time decides how we will be judged. Around adolescence, we develop an identity by trying to associate ourselves with different social groups. Adolescences’ self-consciousness will allow them to take on several identities, but they do it to be popular with certain social groups instead of trying to find an identity that is most suited for them. They eventually comes to an end through the experimentation with different identities never stops. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002), we might have had a different identity from the one we in fact have. Identity is also a human

Identity or self-concept is dependent upon social interactions and experiences. However, identity is also very much dependent upon the agency of one’s self-representation. Ranging from the clothing an individual selects, to vocabulary, to behaviors while interacting, people exhibit a version of their personality they want to be perceived by. The impression one embodies eventually becomes their self-understanding. It is then by interactions among family, friend networks, coworkers or classmates people come to know who they are and who they are not (Billington, 58). Due to responses received by the experience and interpellation pertaining to the emitted self-representation validates one’s identity. However, identity is an unfixed discourse constantly evolving. Depending on context, a person may alter their self-concept. Around family a person may be more open and expressive, yet in a professional setting more reserved and meek. Often a forgotten identity-altering factor is age. As people grow older, their identities change according to social interactions and the experiences connoted with age. Interestingly, despite society’s shared commonality of the aging process, each maturing experience and progression of identity is individualized. Therefore, this ideology can be explained by the concept of life course.

Discovering who you are or looking at what you have become is creating ones identity. The search for identity can be rather determined by the past than by the present. The past builds you up and who you are today. However, there are key factors in the past that play a bigger role in shaping your identity. Environment, Loss and symbolism are the key factors in the past that have the biggest impact on creating and shaping your identity. Everyone would be different in some way or form, had an event in one of their key factors of identity changed. You are who you are today not because of what happened yesterday, but what you encountered in your early stages of life. Who you have become today was determined thirty, forty or fifty years ago (childhood) “I became who I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975” (1). That one day in the winter of 1975 had taught Amir one of his biggest lessons, which influenced him until he was an adult. So had that one incident not occurred, or that one person did not die or that horrible memory you regret ever day not happen, you in fact

“Identity is not inherited. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.” by Dorothy West. Identity is something that throughout our history people have struggled with. Identity is such a big part of us. It is who we are, we are born with these identities whether we know we are or not and over our life we change them or transform them for better or for worse. Identity is something that plays a big part in “Who are you”, “This is water”, and “The Culture of Shut Up” because in the end all they give some lessons that are important to finding your identity or about your identity in general. Finding your identity always comes with hardships but, in the end, there is always a lesson to be learned.

Whether a developmental challenge is helpful or an impediment is determined by each person’s characteristics and his or her social environment, which can help further or hinder the development of identity (Hinkley, 2016). Ultimately, Erickson concluded that the ego identity, or personal identity, provides individuals a conjoined and cohesive sense of self that endures and continues to develop throughout one’s lifespan (Feldman).

Think back to your youngest memory. Can you imagine every detail vividly in your mind? Can you remember what prompted you to take part in such a story and what knowledge of your environment inspired you to act? Most likely you cannot. You probably can relive a moment, but the trivial aspects seem to have been brushed over and revised a few too many times to be considered the actual memory. Why is this? A probable reason for this is the notion of education. Education provides individuals, like yourself, a sense of knowledge and inspiration. It shapes what an individual does because it prompts each to consider why do it and how does one can actually go about doing the task the best way. While you were younger, your education stood at a minimal amount, which elucidates the taxing recall process. You did not know the reasons you act or the value with it, you just simply do. However, with education, the most important cultural characteristic, an individual has a greater ability, so to speak, to act to his or her truest intentions, develop a moral compass, and has the foresight to set goals which further impacts their actions and presentation of oneself.

Self-identity is molded as a young age, but continues to change as we get older. This is something that we all do not realize. During a person’s lifetime many of us pause to think what influence a person’s identity. What makes us the individual that we are? I would say that it is our home, where we live with our parents and siblings. Why do we have trust in certain things? Why do we believe the way we do? I would say it is based on the way we were taught and raised a set of opinions that have been instilled in a person since they were young. I would say that their three great influences in my life that makes me who I am today my parents, my religion and my culture.

Think about the time when we entered into this new human world which we do not know nothing about the world. Nobody is born to be smart, intelligent to know everything. We all learn from our parents and relatives guide us to the path that they want. Everything we were guided by the people around us which is part of the most influential thing for our future. Therefore, the thing what we do with the young age will shape our future. It is because of the young age, our identity is molded and influenced by the society and family. For example, if a boy is living with thief family, the child will more likely to become a thief when he gets older. In the other hand, when he lives with the rich family, the child will become rich or educated boy. In my opinion, identity is part of you but molded at the young age, and no one can change or take out from you. Therefore, my identity was built up from my gender, religious, ethnicity and the place where I grew up made me who I am right now.