Identity Reflection Paper

Since I was young, I acquired an identity as the “role model”, in education and in life, to be followed by my family. As a child I was always taught to do my best and achieve to the highest when it came to anything. All through my elementary, middle and high school years I kept this chain of excellent grades. Every day in school I thought to myself what if one day I fail on being the role model of my family. This was my greatest fear all through my schooling and still as of today. Even though this identity of being a role model was put on me, I did not start right away with this identity, but I gradually kept on doing my best so that I can be able to be seen as this role model. When my family started to see that I was doing an excellent job in all my work and exceeding in my education, they decided to identify me as the “role model” I am now. This identity can be sometimes good and bad but, it all depends on the situation. Overall, my family has always been encouraging and supportive of me keeping this identity.

In high school, was where the fear of losing my identity started to become a greater risk. The reason was primarily that there were classes that became difficult. All through high school I was still able to keep on doing good with keeping my identity. High school for me was a form to see how much longer I could keep my identity going. There were times that I just could not take it anymore and wanted to get a break from my identity of being a role model. It all