What Identity Means to Me?

Sebriana Ciarcia

English 1100

9/3/15

Prof. Young

What Identity Means to Me?

 To me identity is whom a person truly is inside, but is also something that is tried to be changed, but this ideal of the perfect identity. Your identity is how people perceive you, but most importantly how you perceive yourself. I think that identity is not only important to me, but also to everyone else. It's something people have been fighting for, for years. Times are different today and society is more open to your true identity. People used to have conform themselves to fit into this ideal perfect identity society had. Before, society thought the perfect identity was someone who was a certain skin color and those who weren’t the right color still had their identity, but it wasn’t the right one.  There was a time when people who felt different couldn't come out and say they felt more like one gender than the other. But, today we are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to see people to show their true identity and live free. I believe we have been fighting for free identity for centuries and still fighting today. To me identity is who we truly are and I believe it’s something we still have to fight for today. Even with all the milestones we’ve made in the past there is still a lot ahead of us to make identity is who someone truly is, instead of what everyone else thinks identity. Maybe not to some people, but to me identity means the world to me. It’s something I never want to hide or stop fighting for because to me identity is me. I would never want me to change.