Author:\u00a0Alina Debogovi\u0107, O\u0160 Kajzerica, Zagreb<\/p>\n
What is true identity? Is it the name on my ID card? Is it all the information written in the personal data sheet? I don’t think so. If that were the case, people would be boring.<\/p>\n
In today’s world people often like to label things and have a stereotypical opinion of them.Well, at least they did in my case.<\/p>\n
You see, I come from a little different family. My mom comes all the way from China and my dad is Croatian. Ever since I started going to school, I have drawn attention of those around me. It was the well known attention which goes back all the way to kindergarten. I had all eyes on me…. because of my looks. It was mostly because of my eyes, they are quite narrow.<\/p>\n
I was lucky enough to have great friends. Most of my class didn’t mock me, but I would always come across some bullies. They called me \u201cplastic girl\u201c, \u201cyellow girl\u201c, \u201cweird eyes\u201c. All kinds of names.<\/p>\n
I cried countless times. I was a stereotype….a stereotype of an object actually. They said I was \u201cbad quality\u201c. They had an identity card<\/em> all ready for me.<\/p>\n They thought that they knew everything about me, but they didn’t. I was given an already finished identity card<\/em> that didn’t fit me. I was very angry and upset but not with them, I was upset with myself<\/strong>. It was because I let their comments affect me and I started believing them.<\/p>\n I wanted to prove them wrong. So I started studying very hard for Croatian classes to get straight A’s<\/strong> and prove that I was \u201ca hundred percent Croatian\u201c. Unfortunately, that didn’t work.\n<\/p>\n I was stuck with the identity card<\/em> I was given and had to wait for it to expire to make a new one. On the new identity card<\/em> I wanted to have good things written about me. Information that was true.<\/p>\n And then…a new school!…and I thought ….A new beginning! A better beginning! But… to be completely honest it was even worse. All the kids including me were all grown up. I thought, naturally they would change and be more mature but they weren’t. The new identity card<\/em> wasn’t the one I wanted.<\/p>\n I’m in the seventh grade now and things have changed…. but not much. I still have the same identity card<\/em> I was given since coming to the new school. But I’ve learned and realized a lot. All the hardships I was given had left a message behind them. I have realized I can’t let other people define me as a person. It is me that makes me as a whole. Other people are just side-effects and I decide whether to trust them or not. I am the one that makes my identity<\/strong>. And I choose to be the best version of myself that could ever exist, because I choose the way I WANT my identity card<\/em><\/strong> to look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Author:\u00a0Alina Debogovi\u0107, O\u0160 Kajzerica, Zagreb What is true identity? Is it the name…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6713,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6772","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2cktY-1Le","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pug.hr\/gimnazija\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pug.hr\/gimnazija\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pug.hr\/gimnazija\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pug.hr\/gimnazija\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pug.hr\/gimnazija\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pug.hr\/gimnazija\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6776,"href":"https:\/\/pug.hr\/gimnazija\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6772\/revisions\/6776"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pug.hr\/gimnazija\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pug.hr\/gimnazija\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}