Talk:Kick/@comment-5433364-20121013165951

I have to write an essay on what "true identity" is... This is what I have so far:

Identity is not something we are born with, but rather something that we must earn and create for ourselves. What does it truly mean to have an identity though? We all have names that we are called by, but are those our identities? We each must earn our place in this world. An identity isn't just a name, an I.D. card, a social hierarchy, or the clothes on your back and the roof over our head, but rather something non-tangable, something that cannot truly be grasped.

How we choose to be remembered and our identity to which people remember us by is our own choice. Everyone has an identity, good or bad, big or small. It's our actions that give us these traits to remember us by though, our choices that determine who we truly are. We cannot be pigeon-holed into certain categories. True identity is a concept that might never be truly understood.

What we wear, how we talk, what our names are, how we look like, is not our identity. Rather, it is what's inside that shows us who we are. The decisions that we make during difficult or bearing times is what gives us true value. If each of us had equal identity, how should one be more important, or more remembered than another? Our legacy is, in essence, our identity. Who do you want to be thought of, remembered as to other people? We each create our own story and identity everyday, from the simple choices to the large ones that could ultimately affect the great scheme of things.

You cannot be born with, or given, an identity to be lived and know through by. We face daily challenges, and how we choose to deal and cope with them is what gives us our identity. Anna, Maria, Jacob, Steven, Hannah, Alex, Nicole, Alejandro, Cindy, are all just names. Names are not who we are, or even what we are. Names are something to be called by, not our identity.

Our true identity is who and what we really are. It reflects on us as a whole, through all the good and bad choices an decisions that we might have made. Our legacy stretched out behind us, and how we want to be talked of, remember of, thought of as, is not by our name, or our journey, or even our story. It's our identity in which we are truly remembered by, what makes us, in a sense, us.

Dunno why I posted it, I just wanted to see what you guys thought of it!

- Alexi :)