The Three Rituals That Make Me Who I Am

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The Three “R’s” That Make Me Who I Am The Three “R’s” Rituals, relationships, and restrictions all have made me who I am today, and will influence who I am going to become. For me rituals and relationships go hand in hand, many of the rituals that I perform, I perform with my family members or other people I have close relationships with. Going to church every Easter Sunday has become a ritual for my family, along with having an Easter egg hunt at our family get together later on Easter Day. A ritual that my family participates in is taking off our shoes when we walk into the house. Taiye Selasi asks in her TED Talk “Who are the people who shape our weekly emotional experiences?” She also asks “Which of your relationships are home for you?” …show more content…

The biggest restrictions that I deal with on a daily basis, are my age, gender, and location. I am a 16 year old girl living in the United States, so there is a long list of things I cannot do because of my age. In Ohio I can get my permit at 15 and a half, and I can get my driver’s license at 16. But I cannot go watch an R - rated movie until I am 17, I can register to vote when I am 17 but cannot vote until I turn 18. I always hear “the reason why you aren’t allowed to drink until you are 21 is because your brain is not fully developed until you turn 21.” I have to wait until I am 21 years old to legally drink alcohol, although my brain is still underdeveloped when i am 18 I can still legally acquire a firearm. Living in the small town of Galion I am restricted by the lack of activities that our town offers. If I want to go watch a movie at the movie theater, I have to drive roughly twenty minutes to the theater. If I want to go to the mall to go shopping, I have to drive twenty minutes to the Richland mall, and about and hour to get to Polaris. Throughout my life I have always heard, “you shouldn’t sit like that, it isn’t ladylike” or “that’s too heavy for you, do you need someone to help you carry that”. Since I am a girl, many people think that I am not capable of holding my own, carrying groceries that are heavy, or even fixing a flat tire. One of the most annoying one liners I hear is “you hit like a girl”, why

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