What defines us?

What were your impressions of the first class? Are we our Name, our Family, our Sex, our Nationality or our Location? If not, then what is responsible for our identity? Do we have an identity apart from our community?

Our name, family, sex, nationality, and location are very important to our identity, but they are not what entirely defines us. Our name, family, and nationality can show our background and even our class. Our sex can usually affect how we act and can most definately play a part in the way we look at the world around us. Even our location will often have times a great influence on us and our ideas about the world as we develope. However these are only peices of our definition; they are important but there are even more significant aspects of us that truely define who we are. What really defines us is something seperat from our community (our name, family, sex, nationality, and location), though it is often times affected by that. It is our actions. And what is meant by actions is not every physical move we make, but the things we do that truely make a differnce, to the world, to others, and to ourselves. These actions define us because they are the representation of the inner thoughts and emotions that have affected us the most, because they meant the most to us, and therefore have caused us to turn them into actions. These actions define us because they come from the deepest part of our sole, the purpose of our existance in our own perspective. This defines us. What we do defines us.

TOK