Identity And Personal Identity

When human beings strive to become a particular person with a specific identity, it creates a sense of belonging and self-awareness.
The first place where you would find persons searching for their identity is High school. Gravitating towards a specific peer group or clique is what students tend to do. These cliques depended on either extra-curricular activities, gender, popularity or ethnicity. Everyone wanted to belong somewhere and this caused segregation among fellow students.
When I was in high school, I did not consider myself to be a part of any group or clique; even though most might say I was a geek. One of my everyday routines was going to high school so I paid attention in class, got good grades and came out on top. Not classifying myself with a clique did not affect my sense of self. Being secure in who I am as a person, was and always will be my strong point.
At lunchtime, the students separated into different races. She mentioned that the white kids sat on the sloping, green lawn and the benches above, while the black kids sat on a wall outside the gym. From the story, it seemed as though Desmond-Harris and her friend Thea usually sat with the white kids at the top of the hill. But on that day when they were beckoned by the black kids at the bottom of the hill, they quickly jumped down and joined them. This was important to her "coming-of-age journey'' because she finally realized that she belonged to a particular group that she identified