In early life, you not only perceive it as necessary to have an identity, to better enable you to relate within your world, you perceive it as desirable. Identity also qualifies you for a particular way of life. It ensures that you are eligible to live your life in a specific way, due to the existence of particular elements of the identity. These elements are essential to the endurance of your chosen way of life. They predispose you to a specific way of life in accordance with the kind of life you choose.

When a child recognises this requirement for an identity, it looks to those people in its immediate environment for inspiration. The child will make a choice based on its current perceptions and on the inspiration it finds within its world, to fashion its identity in accordance with a desired lifestyle...