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For me; identity is who you truly are, who you want to be and the things that you have done in the past. It could be your achievements, your mistakes, your dreams, your ideas, beliefs… It is basically everything that lies in your own mind. It is the way that you think, the way that you represent yourself with your appearance or even with just simple conversations with others. It could even be the people around you because some say that those you spend time with represent you, your characteristics. To build an identity for yourself, you have to be yourself. You have to live your life to the fullest and you have to live it the way that you and only you want to live it. You have to be able to make your own decisions without needing anyone else to make them for you. This is YOUR life, not anyone else’s. Your decisions are the ones that bring you where you are now, where you were in the past, and where you will be in the future. They are the ones that position you low or high in life. So, they are also a huge part of who you are; your identity. Literally no one ALWAYS make the right decisions. No one is perfect. Some people think that an identity of someone is just how they look like, how they act like on platforms like social media etc. Well guess what? Identity isn’t the ‘perfect’ lives that everyone sees on social media. There are non-perfect lives behind those pictures. That’s why they have ‘behind the scenes’ in movies. To show that the film isn’t that perfect. To show that they also failed several times on the road to make the ‘perfect’ movie. To show that everything has its own imperfections. For identity, it’s the same. To build an identity, you won’t always make the right choices, decisions. You will have ups and downs. At the end of the day you will realize that without those ‘mistakes’ you made you wouldn’t be where you are right now. You will eventually realize that those decisions you made, all of them, is a part of who you really are. They are you, your identity.
Nehir Keskin
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