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My Identity - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The Narrative self: Entities are given meaning through being experienced. I feel like as we experience and re-experience memories, they are given meaning and shape our identity.
      - I thought a lot towards the end of the semester about what my memories affected within my identity. I think that my brother had a huge impact on the person that I became.
        
        He was with me more than anyone else, and was my role model while growing up. This caused me to be super confident, outgoing, and extroverted just as he had been while we were growing up.
        
        My brother was also the subject of the example that I included in our "Memory Revisited" discussion. A funny memory with him was the first thing that came to my mind, which just goes to show how big of an impact he had in my life.
  - - - After learning about the body theory, I started to assess the way that I look in relation to my family. I found it really beautiful that I had so many traits of my family members that I had never really noticed before.
        
        While this was a cool realization, it also helped me feel like my identity had been formed not just through my parents, but through my grandparents, their parents, and so forth. This made me feel incredibly connected to my heritage as they have all had a part in creating who I am.
    - - This makes me wander if I'll appreciate everything, or anything, that I'm doing right now. Am I headed down the right career path? Am I with the right person?
- - - - 100 billion neurons in our brain similar to the 100 billion galaxies containing 100 billion stars each in the known universe.
        
        The concept of space is something that has always intrigued me, and made me slightly uncomfortable
        
        I just don't like feeling like space is a never-ending thing. I feel comfort in knowing the boundaries around me, and the way that space is described gives it no boundaries whatsoever.
        
        I expanded on this topic by researching space more. I found out facts that made me just as uncomfortable like how black holes are just hypothesized, and we'll never really know what happens if you fall into one.
        
        While this did freak me out, I took the time to find beauty in the unknown. I think that our research on the Tao and their appreciation of nature helped with this a lot as I now see the Earth and space as beautiful things, rather than scary ones.
  - - - microbes and bacteria can create small changes within a large organism that can greatly affect it’s makeup as a whole.
    - - Identity is the relation that a thing bears only to itself
- - - - Not as many possibilities, but the stories are so much more real and meaningful. A song I wrote
    - - Creating music based off of a different persona. The false identity I create can be used to tell a story in the shoes of someone else.
        
        This has allowed me to write some great songs about experiences that I never actually went through
        
        I have been focusing on my songwriting a lot in the past few months and have used Father John Misty as inspiration to write more songs that aren't about my experiences, but rather just things that I wanted to write about.
        
        I have written songs that revolve around having children, being married, being cheated on, traveling the world, etc. all by looking through the lens of other's experiences.
    - - Identity is found in how a person expresses themselves textually, sometimes through songwriting.
        
        Hume's assertion that the self is basically a fiction we keep retelling ourselves. There is no fixed, enduring self over time.
- - - - "identity emerges from a dialectic between internal identification and external ascription."
        
        Selfies are how we externally show what we believe or want to believe we are like from the inside
        
        I hope that this never leads to the reality that came out of the black mirror episode that we watched. Selfies and posts are so planned out and fabricated, and if they begin to control our identities in the real world, it could become a serious issue.
        
        This connection reminded me of our Bandersnatch discussion. That film really expanded my mind on the idea of a greater being controlling our lives.
        
        While I hope that this greater being is God, and not some evil game programmer, it was really cool to think about this possibility.
        
        Modern Art & Identity
        
        I believe that art in all mediums is an external visual of how people internally view themselves and the world.
        
        Constructing Gender
        
        Frida Kahlo's "self portrait" showed her masculine side
        
        I have always been very firm in my sexuality and gender identity, but some of my close friends have really struggled to define themselves in these areas.
        
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        The Body in Art
        
        "Back Torso From Below" by John Coplans showed an old, naked, hairy male body to show the beauty that he saw within himself even in his old age.
      - Consumption of aesthetics
        
        Selfies give a false sense of higher order
    - - It was good when I was young because I didn't feel attached to it at that point. It just served as a tool to contact people and a way to play some fun games when I was bored. It wasn't until I got older that I felt like I couldn't be anywhere without it.
        
        This became a reality mainly during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. As I discussed in my final narrative project, I got severely attached to TikTok as I was gaining internet fame, which ended up leading me down a path of a lot of sadness and the inability to detach myself from my phone.
        
        I had to work really hard to break the addiction that I had to my phone and the strong need for attention that my background as a performer and now internet virality brought.
        
        I found meditation to be my saving grace. When we began our practices in this course, I took a lot of time to try and reflect on the issues that quarantine had caused and find ways to work through them and improve my mental health.
        
        This was incredibly successful and will undoubtedly become a part of my daily routine for the rest of my life.
        
        I also learned how to appreciate silence. Gangaji's ideals that silence is not the "opposition of speaking" really spoke to me and made me realize that it's good to silently reflect on things in my life, especially during meditation.
        
        I became really addicted to my phone, which in turn added to a lot of unhappiness in my life. According to Jean M. Twenge, this is because an increase in screen activities can lead to unhappiness, especially in young people.