Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.
I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.
For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.
That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.
If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.
People call me a whole lot of things, but above anything else, I'm a fighter, and it's going to be hard to accept an identity without that.
There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.