What Is My Personal Identity

From a young age, I was taught to respect people no matter their station in life. My parents and others I was around frequently, simply did not allow for disrespect, often I was corrected swiftly but fairly. The parenting I received is a large part of the parent I am, as well as, the person I am. I maintain a happy go lucky demeanor, I suppose the nation I was raised in, and along with the fact that I have never really known violence on a day to day basis as too many others in the world are subject to allows me to seek perspective without fear of persecution or bodily harm. I have many friends from various walks of life. I have crashed on their couches and they mine, and security I find in those relationships has helped me through tough times and allowed me to feel good when I help in turn. Being an overall good person without religion being the guiding force in my life is a big part of my identity. There is no fear of “hell” or a bad scenario in the hereafter, so my attitude on life is not forced or faked. One final influence on my identity is my early adoption of technology, I have always enjoyed gadgets and computers and feel it has made me useful and I will maintain that feeling into old age as I understand tech more than most my age I’d speculate. All of this combined makes my identity, I do my best to avoid negative influences, and sometimes positive ones, in order to make up my own mind about each new scenario I am placed into.

Lately my mornings are spent getting up between 5:30am and 6am. I get myself ready, I never look fantastic just passable, and I go to work. Part of my morning routine is getting my dog, Donovan, ready for the early part of his day as well. We go to the yard for his bathroom routine, we go inside where I feed him his diet dog food and inject him with insulin, we go upstairs where I place a new diaper wrap around his mid-section (dogs with diabetes leak, who knew?), and he goes back to bed to sleep beside my husband. After we say our goodbyes I head to work, or school, or whatever adventure life has for me that particular day. Rinse, wash, repeat. I had no idea when I was in my teenage years that my life at 32 years old would be a tattooed, married, full time working, full time schooling, boring, Puerto Rican, animal lover. Well, the animal loving part I knew since I was maybe 2.

A person’s identity is shaped by many different aspects. Family, culture, friends, personal interests and surrounding environments are all factors that tend to help shape a person’s identity. Some factors may have more of an influence than others and some may not have any influence at all. As a person grows up in a family, they are influenced by many aspects of their life. Family and culture may influence a person’s sense of responsibilities, ethics and morals, tastes in music, humor and sports, and many other aspects of life. Friends and surrounding environments may influence a person’s taste in clothing, music, speech, and social activities. Personal interests are what truly set individuals apart. An individual is not a puppet on the string of their puppet-master, nor a chess piece on their master’s game board, individuals choose their own paths in life. They accomplish, or strive to accomplish, goals that they have set for themselves throughout their lifetime. Individuals are different from any other individual in the world because they live their own life rather than following a crowd of puppets. A person’s identity is defined by what shaped it in the first place, why they chose to be who they are, and what makes them different from everybody else in the world. I feel that I have developed most of my identity from my own dreams, fantasies, friends, and idols.

Today being able to identify yourself is such a huge controversy. Are you female or male or transgender? These are all labels to me. Determining who you are is much deeper than physical appearance. It’s who you are not what you are. I am trinity. I am a young aspiring neurologist, and I faced many adversities and obstacles that tried to swayed me from my path of success but instead the wind blew from behind and pushed me to excel faster. This wind I speak of the wind that pushes my wa’a or canoe, and the canoe is my method of transportation to my destination. My destination is my goal or destiny and my support is my paddle. I am my paddle. Every crack of faded spot represents my struggles. The first crack presented itself in 2014 when I was diagnosed with graves disease.

Personal identity is who somebody is, and is the foundation of mental and emotional health. Additionally, it prominently partakes within how and why one emotes certain feelings and within controlling them. Personal identity is one’s background, their race, culture, and gender; even who they are because of how and where they grew up. It is the conception one creates of themself as they age and encounter both positive and negative experiences in life. Accordingly, it consists of others opinions of oneself and one’s actions will often reflect the type of opinions. Personal identity can

My struggles with personal identity, at least as far as they relate to Navy SEAL parachuting techniques, all started in 3rd grade.

What is identity? Identity, to me is like a core of an individual or their inner story, which can neither be seen nor stated at once because it does not lie on the surface. I believe identity is a part of the self; therefore, it takes longer to discover one’s self in full, if possible at all. You shape one’s identity through different important roles, which have a strong factor in one’s life such as culture. Culture identity is often defined as the feeling of belonging to a group, which is part of a person’s self-conception and self-perception. It is both inherited and constantly evolving. It also refers to the traditions, customs, and practices that affect a person. I believe defining my own personal identity can take a lifetime and to complicate matters, my identity changes throughout my own personal development.

Many pieces of my personal identity make me who I am. I am a twenty year old, Caucasian female, who is currently striving toward a higher education. I am proud of the person that I have become and am aware that because of who I am, I fall in the line of simultaneously being privileged and oppressed. Being so that I am primarily privileged the factor of me being a female is enough to make me oppressed in certain aspects. I do not have to fight for things as much as other women do given their race, but I still feel females as a whole struggle as well as they have privileges that we do not even make note of because they are almost normal in our everyday lives.

We all have unique talents and interests, and it is essential for each one of us to determine our own true identity and talents. My math and problem-solving skills define an essential part of my identity. This is where I excel, and I am told that I have a unique way of explaining it to others.

"Social networking in real life looks absolutely ridiculous," was unquestionably funny! I related to her being “connected” because I personally use LinkedIn often and have made many connections in the work place through this social media. Also, the “endorsing” of your skills comment was right on the nail. I always feel that if someone endorses me I in a way also need to go on their page and endorse them as well. So Jenna wondering out loud if the other individual in the coffee shop was going to endorse her was something I’ve also thought about. I found it hysterical when she decided to “poke” the guy on the street, which was a reference to Facebook, but more importantly he said “this is weird though I don’t even know you” and once again her answer

Your personal identity is who you are as a person. You demonstrate parts of your personal identity through what you wear, or how you act towards other people. Some things that are important aspects of your personal identity are your birth order, family dynamics, and just your personality in general. You also demonstrate part of your personality through what you want in the future.

An identity that best defines my personal characteristics is that I am a risk taker that loves when challenges come my way. With the difficulties I have encountered in my life span I have managed to enrich my confidence to confront challenges.

My purpose is to show my individuality and to express myself. This is for others including myself, to see and to remind us that our identity is very complex.

Everybody has an identity, it makes them individual and unique, and it defines who you are as a person. This project about my identity showed me what makes me unique. I would have never known how much my friends mean to me or how my identities connect with each other. I have three identities that make me who I am, cultural, personal, and social. A specific quality that covers my cultural identity is being Czechoslovakian. Both sides of my family have at least a part of Czech in them. My great-grandparents are from Czech Republic and my grandpa was the first generation in America, he was born in Ohio. This is very important because I have always identified as Czech and it is a big part of me, as I am so interested in ancestry. For my personal identity, the biggest part is my personality, being loud and outgoing, has always been important to me. The reason being, it is how people view me. A lot of people know me as the loud person or the person who talks a lot. That is meaningful to me considering I like people to view me in a certain way The last identity, social, is one of the most important to me because it involves my friends, and through this project, I learned how vital they really are to my social identity. I realized that I have a good amount of friends in this project. It is nice to have people as a support system and to relate with. These qualities show that I value being loud and outgoing. It also says that I value my family and they are a big part of life. The last one, social, ties in with the first one because it shows I am outgoing and friendly.

The person I am has been shaped by all the people and circumstances I have come across in my life. My background has had one of the biggest impacts on my personality and my future aspirations. Growing up in an Ethiopian-Canadian household gave me a unique perspective on the world around me. My parents emigrated from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the early 90s. Their firsthand experience living in a developing country provided me with insight into the issues facing the developing world. This sparked my passion for international development. My background has developed my world view, impacted my aspirations, and has shaped me into the person I am today.