Understanding our identity gives us a sense of belonging, helps us discover our capabilities and strengths, and weaknesses. It gives us happiness and a feeling of the fulfillment of our heart desires and perceives others in society. It provides the kind of knowledge we need to avoid errors, make choices like our career paths deal with challenges, and how we deal with others in life and perceive the environment we live in.
Self-identity helps us to know our capabilities. The choices we make in life depend on whether we know who we are and what we want to achieve in life. According to TED Fellow Eddie Huang on identity, living is not about competing with people, its all about competing with ourselves. The most important thing is to understand and identify our abilities. This includes self-identity in terms of limitations when it comes to achieving a given goal or desire. One must understand what he or she is able to do and differentiate from what other people are able to do in life because you are unique in existence. From my experience in society, there was a
boy in our society who could not do well in class work. Every time an exam was done his results were very pathetic and even discouraging with the fact that he could even score a zero in some subjects such as Mathematics. Everyone used to look down upon him because he was a dwarf academically. Even his parents and siblings used to make very unfair statements about him concerning his weakness in classwork. His academic journey came to an end before he had any reasonable academic certificate but he was good at singing. After leaving school, he started singing on various occasions in society to entertain people. Unexpectedly, everybody loved his voice and creativity in singing whenever he was performing. Later on in life, he was fortunate to succeed in the music industry and he even emerged as one of the best artists in the society. Source of income was no longer his problem as the singing talent of was attracting a lot of money in his life making him one of the richest people in the society. Here he realized that his abilities dont lie in books but in singing.