Self- ID

I think of myself as a decent kid, I stay out of trouble and I do what I have to do to get my stuff together. I try my hardest at everything I do no matter what it is that I’m doing, my best effort is applied to everything. I was not always like this, there was a time when I had no motivation, I barley tried, but it all changed once I turned 16. When I turned 16 I had gotten my license, a job and a girlfriend. I want to be seen as a motivated hard working young adult, I want to be treated like one as well because I have worked hard to grow up, it did not come easy.

In a way, Mark Salzman and I have this connection with our self identity. It is not that we have a problem with it, it is just the fact that we try hard to impress either ourselves or our loved ones. In Lost in Place, Mark wanted to be seen as many things; a Kung Fu fighter, a Buddhist Monk, a musician, and a Chinese expert. Mark’s problem was that he could not balance all of those expertise at once, so he kept switching them around, or quitting at one thing and going on to the next, and if that didn’t work out he would go back to whatever he dropped. It was a vicious cycle within him, Mark could not decide what he wanted to be seen as, nor could anybody else. Instead of sticking to one thing, mark juggled his passions, which is okay for multi taskers. But Mark is not a multi tasker, and neither am I which is why Mark and I share a lot of the same problems, he and I get too tangled up in our thoughts.