My Background: My Identity

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My background is central to my identity, because who I was then and the memories I have now, with the things that happened to me throughout my life, have changed me into who I am today. Yet, in the past few years, I have changed drastically and still am growing into the person I want to be. The three main sections, and or concepts, that make me who I am today, are who I was, who I am and who I will be.

Beginning with, who I was, I was never a child that wanted to be out in a crowd with others, especially with others I didn’t agree with. So instead of doing things other kids did, throughout elementary school I stayed back and helped the teacher clean up the room. Which, then later on, in middle school I then did began to hang out with others in my age group. Also, with all the things that have happened when I was younger, I learned to overlook and or use references of what not to do and the things that I could do better.
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In which all those decisions, are hard to make u, it is best to try them out to see which one is best. The one thing I believe is to always try some things before one turns it down. The reason is that you’ll never know the outcome good or bad. Although many things are best now to try because they're outcome is never

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