My Memoir: Do We Shape Our Identity?
Noah Scibetta Professor Erika Hendra EN 100 Rhetorical Strategies 17 September 2024 My Memoir The definition of Identity is “the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.” Everyone has an identity and the way we portray ourselves to others represents a piece of our identity. The way we dress, the way we speak, the way we style our hair and mess with it because we think it’s not right is all part of our identity. There is one thing in life that shapes our identity and what we encounter every single day, those are experiences. Experiences shape our identity, we may not think of it as so or think about it much at all, but it’s the truth. But some experiences are more life-changing than others in our lives, and an experience for one individual
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I had worked in my part-time job the entire summer, I decided to work throughout the school year so that I could keep making money mostly. It was all going pretty well, that was up until February when I was let go. I had gotten a warning before for a mistake I had made there knowing it was serious, and one day my boss walked in and saw me talking to the other lifeguard, sent me home that day, and fired me at a meeting later. I was incredibly upset, I remember sitting across from my boss and his boss with both blinding anger and overwhelming anguish. My boss wanted to walk out with me but I refused and walked myself out, I remember walking out of the office and seeing it for the last time with all the negative emotions in my head. The entire time I was thinking and continued to think about how stupid the reason I had been let go of it made me even more frustrated. I had thought, there was almost no one in the pool when I was talking to the other guard and my eyes were on the pool also. I was also upset because all the other guards had done, if he had come back just a little later or earlier the other guard would have been in trouble. I was making excuses, I was upset, and was trying to justify the mistake I had made at the time. Although I still think it is nonsensical, I at the time knew those were the rules and broke them by what I was doing, even if others had done the
I had worked in my part-time job the entire summer, I decided to work throughout the school year so that I could keep making money mostly. It was all going pretty well, that was up until February when I was let go. I had gotten a warning before for a mistake I had made there knowing it was serious, and one day my boss walked in and saw me talking to the other lifeguard, sent me home that day, and fired me at a meeting later. I was incredibly upset, I remember sitting across from my boss and his boss with both blinding anger and overwhelming anguish. My boss wanted to walk out with me but I refused and walked myself out, I remember walking out of the office and seeing it for the last time with all the negative emotions in my head. The entire time I was thinking and continued to think about how stupid the reason I had been let go of it made me even more frustrated. I had thought, there was almost no one in the pool when I was talking to the other guard and my eyes were on the pool also. I was also upset because all the other guards had done, if he had come back just a little later or earlier the other guard would have been in trouble. I was making excuses, I was upset, and was trying to justify the mistake I had made at the time. Although I still think it is nonsensical, I at the time knew those were the rules and broke them by what I was doing, even if others had done the