Social Identity

I know we did not get to the social identity model in class today but I thought I would still talk about social identity considering it was a huge part of our current paper. When writing this paper, I had no idea how much my social identity influenced this event in my life. I talked about my age as an identifier for myself, and to be honest I had not thought about this situation like this before discussing with Mr. Beal. Once he pointed out that it sounded like age was a large factor I started to write and by the end of the paper, my thoughts completely changed. In the beginning I was writing as if my age negatively impacted the situation, but by the end I was talking about how I am grateful for my age and the chances it gave me. While I know this is hard to understand without reading my whole paper, I thought the change in my thought process was extremely interesting. I considered going back and making my points more consistent, but instead I am planning on adding a paragraph that talked about the transition my thoughts went through while writing this paper. My original thoughts are still valid and I want my reader to be able to see my thought process.