Identity - unedited

Identity, An Exploration

(the unedited version)

6 entries found for identity… the 6^th is mathematical, and therefore irrelevant

1. The collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is definitively recognizable or known
2. The set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group.
3. The quality or condition of being the same as something else.
4. The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; individuality.
5. (-dnt-t) n. pl. i·den·ti·ties

6. Intentionally left blank.

Identity. Identities, plural. The search for who I am.

Identity is relative, refers to the surrounding environment.

A person as defined by her surroundings.

A person referred to by gender ( male or female or…)

A gender subject to discussion in race (black or white or…)

A Race subject to debate in culture (a literary artifact, a musical note, a…)

A culture subject to dissection by the corporation (ammunition for exploitation…)

A corporation dictating social identity

(Where?

wear, buy,

Whereby to

consume

Consummate the

Marriage

Marred image

Between / bit by bit wean

Us and/onto them

To gain (obtain, receive something that one previously lacked)

To gain (weight, obsess, abuse, obiese)

To pain, to in-sane, too insane too inane

Freedom within? (it has been there all along)

Freedom without? (stripped of labels, devoid of barriers, do we float in nothing?)

Success (achievement, accomplishment, a sense of identity)

Defined, measured, constricted, refined in the minds of other people

The group collective

The group informative

The group definitive

The group illusive, vague, internal and best described as what you see in your own head

Images, ideas, filtered by assumption

Carved out by experiences

Distorted or elated by perception

What else matters, but your own of your own?

Identity- so wrapped up in what “everyone else thinks”

So wrapped up in “who everyone wants me to be”

So wrapped up in “where, when, why…”

Who cares?

Who cares. I am who.