Your Identity, Part 7: You Don’t Have One…

Truthfully, you do not have one, single identity. No one does. Everyone who knows you, knows you differently. They see you from their own unique points of view. 

Everyone who knows you identifies you in their own unique ways. They tell different stories about you. They have different names for you. They identify you by different outstanding physical features, personal characteristics, and possessions.

Everyone who knows you, including yourself, knows a different you. You have multiples identities. 

Your Identity, Part 6: Your Possessions and Setting

In addition to your reputation, name, outstanding physical features, or personal characteristics, your identity (how others identify you) might include your outstanding material possessions and setting.

When you drive a vehicle or own a house that stands out to others, they identify you by it. Likewise, if you live in a community, work in a building or for a company, or participate in a social group that stands out to others, they identify you by it.

In some cultures, an individuals’ possessions are viewed as extensions of them. They are part of the whole individual who owns them. When they die, their possessions go with them. They’re either burned or buried with them. 

Do others identify you by one or more possessions? If so, what? Know how others identify you.