My parents and one of my sisters will arrive here in a few hours. I cannot sit still because of the excitement. I’m excited first of all because I miss them, of course; and second of all, and that is probably the major reason, because I’ll get to show them muwci: the campus, my friends, my classes, the activities than I’m taking part in, my house, my housemates, my room….
This is exciting because I always find it hard to explain how life in here is like, and moreover, because I believe that this place changed me a lot, and actually shaped my personality (identity?) to a large extent in the past one and a half years.
Writing my philosophy IA on the subject of identity I encountered once again different ideas on ‘who we are’ and what makes us who we are. Between all the body theories and mind theories I felt that one important notion was absent – the effect of the people around us and the environment we live in on our identity.
It might be because the discussion is more about ‘what is the self’ rather than ‘what affects the self’. However, I feel that you cannot completely separate those two notions.
First of all, the society we are brought up in (our country, closer community, family etc…) has a tremendous effect on what we will grow up to be like. Very basic qualities of our personality are stated, I believe, in respond to the environment in which you grew up and later on in the changing environments we live our lives within.
I guess this is why many people who studied here find it hard afterwards to go back home, since they find that they have changed while the people who stayed behind have not.
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Later addition:
I actually found it quite hard to explain how this place rally functions even when my family was there. I guess it takes more than a week, or maybe more patience than I have J…
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