This week in class we read and watched a speech given by actress Thandie Newton titled “Embracing Otherness, Embracing Myself.” She speaks about how as babies we are born knowing where we belonged, who we were essentially, but as we grow up we are implanted with notions in our head about who we are, who and what we will be, how we will get there, and all this that is done subconsciously by our parents and family begins to separate us from being whole into different categories, characteristics if you will. We’ve all gone through different phases in life where we try to find who we are, we put ourselves in different roles to figure out which ones suit us best.
Eventually we all settle down and become who we are supposed to be given our cultural and spiritual backgrounds, but never once do we stop and say “Is that really who I want to be?”
Thandie Newton does a great job of making you aware of the process that has occurred from when you were a child to your adult life now and really makes you wonder, have I found my essence? I encourage you all to follow the link and watch the video and really listen to the message she is giving.
