In Search Of Self, By Khalil KJ Adams

In Search Of Self Once I watched a short film written and directed by Khalil KJ Adams. This film was about people who were living in a world where everybody wore metaphorical masks to hide behind them due to lack of self-identity. In the comments to the great short movie, KJ Adams emphasized the message: “Do not let fake society define your identity or tell you who you have to be. The truth is inside of you. Do not lose or change your identity owing to people who are not worthy of you.” These words made me sink into a reverie. As a result, I started to ponder about the answers to questions what identity is and which factors play a sufficient role in the formation of it. Millions of words exist across the globe that we use to describe people and uncover their identity and hundreds of different involvements have an influence in developing of it. People do not need to share name,
Its power lies on the fact that not all people attend educational institution and follow rules of their religion, but in fact, each person has a family and relatives, friends and peers, classmates and colleagues, and that is so-called society that shapes people’s identity. Each group of people of society affects each other’s within a certain period of time. For example, as we spend the most part of our childhood and grow up with our family, we pass to the adolescent stage with our parents’ traditions and beliefs. Then, we, as teenagers, grow up further, make new friends and try to repeat their lifestyle: dress in the same way as our friends do, act in the same way as they do, and become the same person as they want to be. In this connection, this routine is continuing till the moment when each of us separately is able to find this sense of self with high self-esteem and social