The Identity Crisis - Who are you?

Everybody is rummaging, clawing, screaming their way through the massive human mess in attempt to find their identity. Today, we face an identity crisis where nobody knows who they are, why they are anymore.

Who are you?

Your instinctive response to this question would be to reply with your name. But how many people in this world share the same name as you? Ten? Ten thousand? A million? If so, what makes you disparate among the rest of them? Your occupation? Your nationality? Your Passport Number?

Have you noticed all these are just mere labels? A few letters, a job, a chain of numbers. They don't define you. That wouldn't do you any justice at all. Who are you?

You could be a 15 year old teenager, a 38 year old adult, or a 84 year old grandpa, but yet still be at a loss of your unique and distinct standing among the 7.158 billion people in the world. What makes you different from the people that are too staring at their screen right this moment?

Where did originality and individuality go to? Why are we constantly mimicking Celebrities, Trend Setters and The Popular? Do we notice that this is all just superficial? That many of them are just huge, moving, live advertisements which bring billions of bucks to the mastermind behind these trends. Are they comfortable in their own skins? Or are they too caught up in the fame and fortune to care?

Wasn't fashion supposed to be a form of self-expression? If so, then why do fashion trends exist? Why do people follow these trends? Don't these trends just kill individuality and freedom of expression? What decides if a skirt is trendy or not? What decides if a style of shoes is cool?

So what if i want to be unorthodox and wear eyeliner on my eyebrows? Who are you to judge me? It is my form of expression and its my choice, is it not? 

We are constantly being restricted by society's labels and judgement and the most ridiculous thing is that this was created, by others and developed and nurtured, by we ourselves when we succumb to these ideals.

I am entitled to my own freedom of thoughts and feelings about situations and controversies. That's the least i have as a human being. I refuse to be fed with other's ideals, to be forced into accepting them! Yes, i stay open-minded about others' views, but still, i stand unshaken in my own.

My thoughts, my actions and my feelings --- they make up my own identity.

This, is who i am.

Live with it or leave me alone :)