Identity

What is identity?

Identity is simply who we are, the satisfaction of understanding the point of our existence. Understanding identity means passing the fear of becoming nothing. It is distinction. That desire for someone to notice something different in you. Identity is the understanding of self, impressing ones mark through a situation on anothers life. Identity is the difference between ones self and anothers.

Identity is the demonstration of a person not being a replica. But as the article stated true identity is not satisfying. If you are completely a different individual you are lacking the similarity and connections with others.

Isn’t our identity mixing with others?
Can we identify with something while someone else feels that is there same identity as well?
Is identity determined by religion? Location? Successes? Or is it whichever is most important in our mind identifies us?
Who determines identity who decides if you have fully reached yours? Is it you? Is it God? Is it others?
Is identity established by knowing truth?
Is identity a continuous process or is it a destination that is possible to reach during our lifetime?

Identity is discovering who you are and creating your world and opportunities based upon that. There is fear that one might end his day in a world one never made but rather inherited. Identity is discovering who you personally are. I think it is a continuos journey, mainly surrounded around finding the truths in this world. I know my identity is the truth I believe as a Christian but that is the bulk of it. Tastes and interests play a role in it as well. In the end identity is a combination of many things but I think largely pointing towards this journey of truth.

Interesting quotes to think about:

“He is suggesting that unless one finds something common to all men at all
times, not just to one man once, one cannot die satisfied”

“the tension between an effort to achieve self-creation by the recognition of contingency and an effort to achieve universality by the transcendence of contingency”

“The drama of an individual human life, or of the history of humanity as
a whole, is not one in which a pre-existent goal is triumphantly reached or
tragically not reached.”

“once we give up, as Kant did, on the idea that scientific knowledge of hard facts is our point of contact with a power not ourselves, it is natural to do what Kant did: to
turn inward, to find that point of contact in our moral consciousness in our search for righteousness rather than our search for truth.