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At
first, after I had read over the criteria, I thought I probably
know the most about personal identity. I mean I've had to live
with myself for 18 years. How are hard could mapping some of that
out be? As it turns out there's quite a bit to a person's identity.
I thought about what defines an identity and what parts of that are
most relevant and what can be excluded or "contrasted through
economy."
I thought the most obvious facets to an identity are family, friends,
self perception, genealogy etc. etc. As that list kept growing, I
realized if I wanted to finish this project I would have to edit
it down a bit to just genealogy, family and friends. |
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| Family
and friends seems to me to be one of the biggest contributions
to a person's identity. People learn who they'll be and how
they'll act based on the interactions with people around them.
And
99% of the time those people fall into this category. But this
topic
also presented a problem to me. Who do I choose to incorporate
and who do I leave out? I would definitely talk about my immediate
family; my mom, my dad, brothers and sisters. Since there
are 7 people right there, I could have probably saved room by
lumping
them into one category. But would I have to incorporate extended
family? How in-depth did I want to get with this? I would probably
need to talk about my fiancé, Eli, here too. I could easily
make a map on the topic of that relationship alone. I haven't
even mentioned friends yet. Where and how do I put a border around
that? Do I base it on "best friends," "good friends," "acquaintances," etc.
etc. Since all of them have a part in making someone's identity.
So I basically presented my indecisive self with too many decisions. |
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| Thinking
about how families influence someone's identity got me to thinking
about genealogy. We are who we are because of our past.
Those people made the people that raised the people that raised you.
Did I confuse you? Well I did myself. So I considered putting in
a family tree, but I couldn't think of anything too creative
to do
with it. I mean a family tree is a family tree. I would have to incorporate
this idea some how with the previous ideas. |
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