My Identity

What is it that makes up who we are. Do people define us by how we look and how we act. How do we define ourself's.

Who we are isn't one big thing a billion little things. Some of them we share with others. For me those are things like the language I speak. I'm really lucky that I've been given oppurtunity's in life to expand my communication skills. Not only do I get to continue to recieve eduction that advances my skills in English but I am also learning French, an oppurtunity that I recieve parshily becuase I live in a bilingual country Being a Canadian is also a part of my identity that I get to share with millions of others. I love living in Canada because it is so beautiful here, with all the fall colors, the mountain's, the ocean's, even the wheat in the praires. I also like living in Canada because we seem to have a pretty decent reputation. I like feeling like part of somethig good.

Style, how I dress, is really important to me as a teenager. My style reflects my colllective identity becuase it definetaly follows trends or what's goingin the fashion world but it also representives my individual aspects because everytime a person puts on an outfit they make it their own.

Another big part of my individual identity is my love of travelling. I want to  travel and experince every culture there is out there. I think that by travelling  and seeing new ways of life you become a more compassionate person. As an individual I really love to dance. I am so glad that dance is a part of me becuase it allows me to tell  you how I'm feeling without me saying a word. It can also allow me to morph into someone else, shed the bad day I had. By dancing I open a whole new piece of myself.

My creativity also effects who I am. It helps me feel motivated to do personal projects. Like dance it too helps me express  how I'm feeling. It allows me to put words into  a card or make a scrapbook reflecting an amazing trip.

A final but really big part of who I am is being raised in the Christian (United) Church. it really was the foundation for all the morals that my parents raised  me on. By believing in God it gives me someone to turn to when things get really rough and no one else can make sense of them. The bible was also a good refrence point for lessons my parents were trying to teach me.

For me my identity's hard. I'm still trying to figure out who I am. What makes me, me. I know what's important to me but are those the major points in my identity? I guess I'll just have to keep growing and remebering to hold Nothing back...