So I wanted to be a little controversial on my last post the year. I was thinking about when people say how throughout high school you get a better knowledge of yourself. I seems a little fishy that people "gain knowledge of themselves" at the same time that their brains stop developing.
What if all that really happens when you "learn who you are" is that you actually settle on an identity. Perhaps before you become mature, your identity is fluid. You are free to determine your own likes and dislikes, maybe your own personality. As you "learn about yourself" you are actually determining who you are.
I was always dubious when college essays "tell us who you are?" Does this mean that I am not free to choose who I want to be? Does it mean that its too late now to change myself, that I only had that freedom before I knew it existed?
If that's true, then oops.
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