Personal Narrative: Personality And Identity

“What makes you different from everyone else?” I’ve heard this question repeatedly throughout my life, whether it was from a teacher, or a job interviewer, or even a friend of mine. It’s the type of question people ask in order to get an idea of who you are, and find out what exactly there is about you that makes you special. When I was younger, I would hear this question asked either on television, or in a conversation between older people, and all I can remember thinking was “what’s the point of that question?” I was confused because as a child I didn’t understand the concept of being different; I felt that since we’re all human, we’re all the same. As I grew older, and I learned more about life, I realized that there are a lot of attributes that make every person different, the biggest being personality and identity. Every person is equipped with his or her own sense of identity, but throughout my journey in life, my biggest realization has been figuring out that nobody has a single identity, including myself. I believe that every person comes equipped with multiple forms of identities, the number of identities depending on the person. With each identity comes a different role, and those roles help us get through our everyday lives. Depending on the situation and environment, we pick which “role” we want to use for …show more content…
My mother is of Puerto Rican decent, my father of Jamaican decent, thus making me a bi-racial baby. Growing up in a bi-racial family, you often see children struggling with which culture they identify with more. Many will explain that with each race they posses, it gives them a different identity they must portray. For example, let’s take someone who is half white and half black. This person might feel as though two identities they possess consist of acting “white” around their white family, and then acting “black” around their black family. This thankfully, has never been my