Personal Narrative: What Shapes Our Identity

What shapes our identity? Who are we? Who will we become? Main question we ask ourselves throughout the courses of our life. I know I have asked myself this a thousand times. Who am I? Many people begin the wonder what shapes our identity and how can we start to identify those traits. Have you ever just looked in the mirror and thought to yourself, why am I like this… These questions come from so many things that happen in our life. Our environment, our friends and most of all the way we were raised. The biggest factor in our identities is the way we were raised. We try so hard to please our parents that we forget how to please ourselves, I think thats called an “identity crisis”. Throughout this essay, I want to touch on a few experiences in my life that got

The person that I want to be and is still learning to be. I also, have to remind myself that as humans we are still learning everyday, no matter the age or the experiences. We are never done learning or growing. Which is better to understand that now, then to be dazed and confused with life. For our whole life we have a routine. That routine is wake up, get dressed, eat breakfast and go to school. And, it repeats everyday. It repeats everyday for 18 years. Then we graduate (thank goodness), just to find out we have to go to school or work, sometimes even both. Then we are stuck in the same routine all over again, just a little bit different. Have you ever heard the term “All work and no play, makes johnny a dull boy”, if so I bet youve experienced this dullness feeling in your life. It normal for most people and for others its darn right depressing. I say this because our environment has a huge impact on who we are, mainly our personalities. In elementry school, I remember myself as being quite shy, the reason for this is because I was picked