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The old saying goes - “You can’t judge a book by its cover”. But, people will always judge others. Do we have more control over shaping our own identities or do the judgments of others have more control over shaping our identity?

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Hi Pusheen P.,

If I had to answer right now, I'd have to go with the latter for you, for self-evident reasons.

But I'd advise you to do the thinking on this one yourself. How much of what you consider basic to you (personality, identity) is something which you can change, whether or not you have considered doing so? You might want to list the things that you consider YOU, and then imagine changing each one, one by one. Would that be difficult to do, if you were actually doing it? Would the others in your life give you resistance on doing that? This is, after all, a world in which considerable changes in self-identity do occur!

-- Cheers, --Mr. d.