How do you define yourself?

Identity is not something that can be described in one word or picture. Identity is based on our entire lives. Identity according to dictonary.com is defined as the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another.  These words can mean so many different things.  What is being oneself and not another? For this post I decided to talk about what my definition of Identity is based on who we hang out with in school, what we do for extra activates and the culture that surrounds us. 

            Identity is something that everybody struggles to find.  Some people argue that identity is what you are born with and that is it nothing other than what is written on your birth certificate. 

Above is an example of what somebodies birth certificate may look like.  It has their name, their mother, father and home address.  That’s it, is that all we are 100 characters? Identity is like a pot of soup, each one is a little bit different from the next, but they are all made up of the same basic stock.  

We change who we are all the time. Identity is not something that is set in stone.  You are not the same person now than when you were 5 and you will not be the same when you are 75.  We are constantly changing our lives.  When you were 5 everybody was your friend, there were no cliques or social groups. Now you have chosen who your friends are and we tend to gravitas toward people like us, but in 50 years we will have changed again, because we are always changing to adapt to our environment.  When you go a trip you always come back a little different than when you left because you see and experience new things. Our culture and friends are how we define ourselves, not the 100 characters on our birth certificate.