It's required at a lot of places, at gas stations to pick up the cigarettes, the pub, club, bar to get into and the police station when that police check is due.
Having self identity is also required for life. Everyone has their own identity of who they are. The thing that I have come to realize is that identity is always placed in something. We define ourselves by something that is outside ourselves. Now this can range from something that we do, something we are a part of or a goal that we want to obtain. For myself I have found to have placed some of my identity of being an outdoor "camp" person, being smart and having good grades. Others place their identity in the idea that they are beautiful, or great at art/crafts, or the job that they do. The problem in placing our identity in these things is that they are fleeting. We get a new job, we change what we do, how we look and how we act because life is fleeting, changing and always moving. So people often change or lose their identity because of circumstances are changing around them.
The thing that makes my head spin a little is that our identity defines who we are, so if it changes are we really the same person? How can we find identity if it is always changing? I don't really know how to answer those questions, or if they really need to be answered at all.
And yet another place that people find their identity in is their religion. For me I am a christian so I find my identity in Christ. It took me until last year with a late night brainstorm in order to determine this but I did. Everything that I do (or want to do... see Romans 7:14 on) is because I have placed my identity in him. Now the interesting thing for me is that because my identity is in Him, and He does not change then my core essence, the most intimate and deepest thing of who I am doesn't change.
Grounded, when I think of who I am I think of being grounded. Grounded in Christ and knowing that I know where I can find my ID, in Him.
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