Identity Is A Choice Essay

Identity, is it Really a Choice? Do you choose your own identity or are outside forces getting in the way of choosing it? Identity can be a choice, if you make it one. With all the pressures making you choose a specific choice, there is still the choice you want to make. It may not seem like you are choosing your identity, but all the decisions and actions you make, is you making the choice. Although external forces influence your identity, you have the power to decide what you want to do with it.

One reason why identity is a choice is because we are influenced to follow other’s lifestyles, but we must make a choice on whether to actually follow it or not. The author Dana Mrkich indicates that the way we live is a choice but, we get influenced by other people’s lifestyles and could end up choosing a lifestyle they have. The article, Do you Choose your Identity or is it Chosen for you? by Dana Mrkich states that, “... our choice in lifestyle gives material form to a
They say it is not a choice considering that when we are born, we are given specific factors that in youth, we can not argue about. Although, as you get older, you are more aware of the influences around you and realize your choices. Except, because it is a biased influence, some people lean toward the common choice that all their friends or the people surrounding them choose. It is a choice because there is what other people do or the media shows and what you personally, want to do. “Certainly every action is on some level a genuine choice”, Mrkich states in, Do you Choose your Identity or is it Chosen for you?. Basically, every action was a choice because you have a choice in life. Even though people may think that there is no choice of choosing your identity, there is a choice, it is just a matter of whether you choose the biased