lecture on identity

Today in lecture we went over identity. How we portray ourselves. We watched avatar which, i gotta admit, was pretty cool. In the movie Jake Sully, a disabled veteran  goes pretty much possesses and avatar, which is basically a new body (one that resembles the indigenous population) in which he has full body functions. As time goes on, as he keeps switching from body to body, his worlds begin to blur together and his realities melt together and his alternate reality starts to feel like his actual reality. We also saw to other cases involving sims. One lady, i don't mean to be rude, was a little on the heavy side. However, she identified herself as skinny and therefore made a sim in which she was skinny. Another case was a disabled girl. However, she identified herself as disabled and therefore made a disabled sim. In my opinion, there is one identity which is how you identify yourself. Everything else is just opinion. I think what matters most is how you identify yourself. If you think you are skinny and are happy with it then why does what anybody else think matter? Friends can help shape your identity but all they can do is propose the change. It is up to the actually person to choose whether or not they identify with the change. For example, i can listen to anything the world has to say about me, good or bad, and i can still stay the same without changing. However, what i usually do is if i hear something that someone says about me that bothers me, then i will take a look at myself and if i see it then i'll fix it. If i like the way i am and don't see anything wrong with me then fuck what everyone else says. To me, identity is all about how you see, portray, and present yourself. We are our own piece of art. We intake all these stimuli and we convert it into emotions or actions and present it using ourselves as the medium and the world as our canvas. Identity is art through ourselves. Well at least that's what i think.