Growing up, you’re hopefully constantly surrounded by loving people. You have people that care about you, and you’re never left alone. As newborns we don’t know who we are. We see ourselves as a part of our mother whom we are closest to. Since we haven’t found our own identity yet, we start adjusting and learning from others. Our own “self” is built by our surroundings during our first years in life.
Some say that we become our parents. Don’t worry, you can’t look at your parent and see yourself in the future. Of course our parents have a big influence in how we behave and what we become like. Our parents teach us a lot, and they are a big part of us. But when we grow up, we start creating our own will, our own thoughts, our own mind and we become our own person. What other things are building blocks for our identity? Well, we are constantly being pointed in a direction by the culture we live in, the norms, our religion and the political thoughts. For example, even though some Christians might not believe in God literally, and might not consider themselves religious, they still grew up learning what’s right or wrong, and a lot of those moral thoughts came from the Bible or the norms in our society. Identity can also change during your life time. I mean you’re always going to be you but how you think and feel changes during your life. Your personality change can be caused of a traumatic happening in your life, or you can be lost for a while and find yourself later in life. We might be holding on to one opinion, but then we learn to look at it from another point of view, and our minds open. Lumi Storm, Vasa övningsskola (2nd year student)
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