Personality Essay Example

class when the topic of genes and hair color led us to wonder who we got our brown hair from.

I’ve realized from this experience that genetics has such a small part in making up who you are, but it is the people who surround you that influence your development and sense of self. Hearing stories and memories about the side of my Grandma that Kathleen had experienced helped me see that it was a blessing for her to have a relationship with her birth mother, but at the same time I learned that not having a relationship with my birth parents does not prevent me from finding my own identity and true self. For I am a firm believer that we find what we are looking for in the most unlikely places, in my case, with the most unlikely person. According to John Locke’s theory of psychological continuity of personal identity, “personal identity is a matter of psychological continuity.” He believed personal identity to be established on consciousness, and not on the soul or the body. I believe that the soul and body he is speaking of is the genetic makeup that society so forcefully tries to judge, and the consciousness is the experience we endure that makes us complete and who we are. I’ve realized that there's no rush in finding what makes up my inner self because I was lucky enough to have a family that gave me at least a starting point where the finish line is still to be determined. Your sense of identity has to do with who you think you are and how you perceive yourself. Self esteem is

how you value yourself. So realistically, identity has everything to do with your sense of self-worth and that’s something everyone adopted or not has to find on their own.