Changing the perception of identity

Something as dramatic as our identity, has now become a matter of our choice. We don't inherit the identity, we got to invent it, as often as we like. You decide everyday what kind of person you want to be.

-          Barry Schwartz on TED while speaking on a different topic.

Identity was inherited back then. Religion, culture, tradition, profession, caste, surname, and even name and political belief was inherited. And that would be his identity. 

But now, things are different. We have the freedom to be who we want to be. And if we don’t have, we should have that.

I am talking about rights to create our own identity breaking the barrier of inheritance. A taste to little more freedom. Freedom to choose religion or not believe religion. It’s about liberty to follow cultures and traditions, from all around the world, and modify even, as one individual wants for himself, and celebrate what he feels must be celebrated; being able to have his own identity, and not shadowed by the past due to inheritance. Choose you own profession, choose your own name, and choose your own surname right when you reach the age of adulthood. Or turn 18, from my PoV. And even political belief should be the result of your critical thinking and not inheritance.

And if only had the world have open visas, we could actually get to choose our own nation. There would be no such thing as my country, but free countries. Choose your own constitution, own nation. A nation you would be truly proud of.

But this perception of identity is evil eyed, by the nationalists, and the conservers of tradition and culture. What they don’t understand is that freedom is essential to discover the true self and become self-satisfied. And freedom should have no barrier, not from present boundaries, and not the strings from past. Hail freedom!!