Personal Narrative: My Search Of My Identity

The main challenge in my adolescence stage was the search of my Identity. It was very hard and confusing for me to search and find my ethnicity, religion, gender, and vocational. Being a daughter to parents who have different culture and background was very challenging to me. As my father was from Ethiopia and my mother was from Kenya .My father and my mother were very different culturally, religiously, and ritually. The Ethiopian culture was very different from the Kenyan culture on terms of clothing, cooking style, cultural dances, and they had different festivals. For examples in Ethiopia a wedding ritual lasts for one week, and the bride applies henna on her palm before the wedding ceremony. While in Kenya the Maasai the clan of my mother, before the wedding the
The search of my identity continued as I emerged adulthood, my mother noticed that I became polite, respectful than I used to be in my adolescent. I used to do my assignments on time, which I never did before, going out to drink with friends was my favorite thing but I started ignoring them. At my stage of self focus I started hanging with friends who were older than me, and I got a lot of experience from them. At the stage of identity exploration I worked harder in my studies so that I can achieve my goals. I used to take my responsibilities, but still I didn’t feel I was an adult, but I felt I’m in between. I felt that I was still tied to my family. In the age of possibilities I thought of a better life and chances than my parents to be ahead of them. I used to expect that I will have a partner who will love me forever. I dreamed of a well paid job and I never thought I will have challenges in my life, but I was wrong after my partner disappointed me while having an affair, and my boss fired me from my