Create Your Own Identity

See Yourself, Teach Yourself, Improve Yourself

People respect others that do not follow the crowd.  Many people try to copy everything that their friends are doing in order to be “Cool” and fit in.

Try to figure out what you are truly interested in and enjoy. Decide for yourself the interests or hobbies you want to pursue to help you create your own identity.  If you really enjoy baseball and everyone else is playing baseball, that’s great, but make sure you are playing because you enjoy it and not just because your friends are playing or you feel pressure to play. You should do things that you enjoy even if these are not things that your friends enjoy.  This is a way to create your own identity. Have the courage and the confidence in yourself to try something different from your friends if you enjoy it. People respect individuality and the ability to not follow what everyone else is doing.

Below are some items to help you create your own identity:

• Find hobbies or interests that you truly like and pursue them whether your friends do those things or not.
• Learn to play a musical instrument
• Develop friendships with many people that are a part of different groups of friends.  It is always nice to have a few close friends that you can trust and count on, but it is important to get to know a lot of different people.  This will help you see which group you feel most comfortable with as well as helping you enjoy the time better with your close friends.

Create your own identity by doing the things you enjoy, whether your friends are interested in them or not.