{"id":1890,"date":"2015-12-09T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2015-12-09T00:00:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T18:30:23","slug":"random-thoughts-on-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/09\/random-thoughts-on-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: On Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>When we were born we had no identity, we were just another creature on planet Earth.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then came :<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Parents : religion, caste, surname<\/li>\n<li>Physical appearance: Looks, Color, Weight, Height<\/li>\n<li>Personal nature: Empathic, Rude, Jolly<\/li>\n<li>Job &amp; Education: MIT\/IIT\/IIM\/XLRI\/MIT\/Harvard<\/li>\n<li>Social Status: Bank balance, Car, House<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You will be judged &amp; reminded about your identity at all these 5 places the moment you will fail to deliver or try to go out of the league.<\/p>\n<p>You have got 2 options<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Follow the norm, try carving out Identity for yourself at all those stages.<\/li>\n<li>Be a rebel &amp; build your own identity like hackers, visionaries \u00a0&amp; painters<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1891\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/meggg.jpg\" alt=\"meggg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/meggg.jpg 800w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/meggg-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we were born we had no identity, we were just another creature on planet Earth. Then came : Parents : religion, caste, surname Physical appearance: Looks, Color, Weight, Height Personal nature: Empathic, Rude, Jolly Job &amp; Education: MIT\/IIT\/IIM\/XLRI\/MIT\/Harvard Social Status: Bank balance, Car, House You will be judged &amp; reminded about your identity at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/09\/random-thoughts-on-identity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Random Thoughts: On Identity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}