Defining Myself Essay

Pouring tea for the strangers who had tried to politely refuse, Waverly Earp eyed them cautiously, trying to parse out the story they were telling. They looked disheveled, and road-weary, like they had traveled for days, which interested her. Visitors to Purgatory were rare, rarer still visitors to the Homestead. But Waverly knew exactly why not all could be welcome.

Who am I? This question takes me back to my family's history and my childhood and how it impacted my life. Just as the quote by Marcus Garvey, "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." This topic also allows me to reflect on my experiences and how that impacted who I am today. Not only that my future also defines who I am, such as my future dreams, and what I am doing now to make those dreams come true. Plus, my values, and beliefs that I carry with me.

You ask me to define who I am and I laugh at the silly question. We are all born for a purpose and God himself gives it to us, but finding our purpose to me, is the only way you can define yourself. And I haven’t yet found mine. I was always told as a child to follow a certain path, first comes school, then college, succeeded by a job. I didn’t follow that path though, I took my own. I grew up in a very strict Christian household, who was nothing without God. The summer before my senior year I lost my father to suicide. He was an alcoholic who had veered so far away from life, he forgot what really mattered. My senior year of high school I shut God out of my life and hit rock bottom. Not having my dad around was something I couldn’t handle.

I have spent much of my life trying to define who I am. I defined myself by family, friends, and even things I did. These definitions went through changes — they still do. I defined myself in relation to others (Dr. Morris’ kid), characteristics about myself (neat and clean), and even things I did (read a lot). As I grew, these definitions grew too. However, the three things that define me most are: I am saved, I am a Republican, and I am gay.

Who am I? I, along many others I’m sure, often find myself asking this. Well there is no easy answer to this question. The search for one’s Identity can be a long and painful process. It takes years of self reflecting and a heightened sense of self awareness and acceptance. Our search for identity never end because we as people are always changing.

A question most people are familiar with is, “Who am I?” I have always struggled with placing myself in any identifiable categories. As a Canadian and the second child in my family, I became an outsider in a society filled with singletons as a result of China’s one-child policy. Believing that I would belong when I started school in Canada, I was only disappointed by the shocking disparity in language and culture. And today, though it seems almost ludicrous that the same experiences that I once felt ashamed of have become one of my best assets, the thrill of success from overcoming such challenges have attracted me to the financial sector. ‘Who I am’ is someone who not only someone strives to improve my weaknesses, but I am also someone who takes full advantage of her ability to develop a unique, international perspective of life to grasp opportunities with a growth mindset.

To be an American is to have traits of freedom the thing that the founding fathers counted on is to have the will to speak freely and to have the will of religion in the constitution it say that every citizen should have life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This impacts and brings everyone from different places to help create a society that is free. The founding fathers also counted for the people to speak for what is right. The reason is because this helps out on what the people want instead of the government wants this goes to show that the people matter and that is what makes a person happy and also makes a person feel like they have the pursuit to be happy.

Ever since I was young, I practically excelled at everything I did. I don’t know if I had some godlike genes or some other unknown reason, but, it made life pretty fun and easy. This was especially true regarding school. It was always easy for me and I finished every assignment effortlessly way before any of my peers did. Which left me with a lot of free time inside and outside of class. So, for assignments that we had to take home and do, I procrastinated and didn’t start them until the last minute. I didn’t procrastinate because I didn’t want to do it, I procrastinated because I was confident in my ability to finish the assignment the night before or even sometimes the morning of. Along with procrastinating, I also did not take any notes

When it comes to adults, the answer of defining themselves can be linked with their role- police officer, therapist, farmer, sister, brother, boyfriend or girlfriend. Or maybe their background- single parent, foster care, juvenile detention center, or Chicago, the “roughest” city in America. Are teenagers not the same? It is human nature to define ourselves by the titles that we carry, the boxes we are squeezed into. Do we define ourselves by the people that we associate with? The music we like, movies we watch? Sports we enjoy? Or maybe our academic success or even failures. Many people do not know how to define themselves. Who am I when I strip away the titles, the influence of my family and peers? The greatest influence on me is ME, so I

Every person has something that defines themselves as their own individual, something that makes them their own. My own talent sprung from sophomore year in high school where I found something I’m truly inspired by every day. Everyone gets to express themselves in different ways and my own way is through makeup. It was the first day of tenth grade and my best friend was putting on makeup. She started going into different palettes and creating what seemed like a master piece on her eyes, and I couldn’t stop watching because I was so amazed.. That night I asked my mother if we could go to the store and buy some makeup knowing nothing about it and just basing it off of what I saw. Of course I was just starting out where my face color didn’t match

Finding my purpose was complicated for me. Throughout my life I have been faced with difficult challenges that made me question my reason of being alive. The lost of my father, being an identical twin, my mother’s health problems, my health problems, and my goal changes have a been obstacles I have encountered. But out of everything I have been through searching for myself was one of the hardest things I have every done. Over the years I have struggled to answer the question who am I?

There are a lot of reasons why students will procrastinate in today 's world against doing their homework, whether it 's not wanting to do the homework, not knowing how because they didn 't listen in class, the distractions around them, not caring about the homework or especially the grade they receive or sometimes even forgetting about it because of how busy they are in general. Procrastinating can lead to a worse grade or even failing the class. The time management is slim to none and is horrible when a student procrastinates doing an assignment because they barely have anytime to get the work done. I have procrastinated on a lot of assignments throughout my life and still do, but now I have learned from these mistakes. Students will

Who am I? That is the question not even I know the answer to because only time can answer that. Time changes everything that we’ve known or what we thought we knew. I too have changed many times over because of the situation and setting. I’m from one of the smallest and poorest nations in Asia where we live in different type of lives we have different culture, and few races unlike America. America has a different environment in which it has many diverse people that are from all around the world with different languages, races, and cultures. What always remained with me were my values. I have many values that have made me who I am today, but the most important are growth and persistence. They are both correlated to each other, but they hold different and bigger meaning to me. To me growth means expanding your knowledge to do something better. For others growth can be calculated in small amount or different physical properties, but for me it is all about the mind (brain). Growing is very important not necessarily by height, but with mind because it can expand beyond horizon and beyond others’ ability to see. For example, some of the greatest minds in history had amazing observations like Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Leonardo Da Vinci, Aristotle, and many more. With this principals I can make myself more and make my future brighter by expanding my knowledge everyday. I strive growth, do with it I work for excellence with vision.

I was walking home from school, on a bright, sunny day in late September when it happened. I hadn’t walked home from school in a long time. Today, I stayed late for a volleyball practice. I told my parents that I knew the way, that I could get home by myself. Unfortunately, I was wrong.

The question who I am or who someone is as a person is sometimes asked, but what if that someone doesn't know yet? So then you have to find out who you are as a person. Therefore I will be discussing my high school past, my writing past, and where I see myself in the future. These will help show who I am as a person and how I feel about myself and my writing abilities. Here is who I am.