Like I said before, my family, friends, physical traits, and music affect my identity the most. My family affect my identity because they taught me how to act around people. Since birth, they have taught me good manners, so that I won't be rude to people. My mother and father taught me how to walk, how to talk, and how to be polite. My parents and my other family members have taught me a lot of things since birth.
In addition, my friends affect my identity because they affect the way I dress, the things I own, what I like, and how well I do in my studies. Now a days, I wear many silly bands and friendship bracelets around my wrists because some of my friends outside of school wear them. Because I wear the bracelets everyday, it has become part of my identity. Also, my friends affect the things I own. Some girls in my grade have tote-bags, which are bags that are worn over the shoulder. In fourth, fifth and sixth grade, I owned a back-pack for school. In seventh grade, the girl bag "trend" in school changed from a back-pack to a tote-bag. Because of the change in "trend" at school, I now own a tote-bag and that has become a part of my identity. Many of my friends adore the color aquamarine. Whenever I hang-out with them, I always see the color aquamarine. Now, I adore the color aquamarine, as well. Also, if you hang-out with people who have high grades, you tend to have high grades too. The reason for that is because they talk about how they get their grades and how they do their work. Once you pick-up on their techniques on school work, you usually tend to do the same. Jan, Vicky, Milky, and Shashank are one of my best friends and they all do very well in their studies. I eat lunch with them and I have a few classes with them. I hang out with them a lot, which means that I try to get high grades like them.
My physical traits affect my identity as well. For example, my hair is naturally curly from birth. My mom nor my dad has curly hair, but my grandmother has curly hair. Also, I'm short compared to my peers because my mom is short and my dad is kind of short for a guy. Many people who know my family, say that I have the same smile as my mother. They also say that I look like my father.
Music has affected my identity a whole lot. My mom has been singing to me since I was a baby. I tend to sing a lot and that has been a part of my identity since birth. Since I was six months, I've been listening to Mozart, Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and more. I was in love with piano when I turned three, after I listened to those composers. I begged my mom to allow me to enter piano lessons and she agreed. Now, I can play piano, guitar, flute, and drums. Music has been a part of my identity since birth and that will never change - ever.
