Conformity Essay: First Paragraph

The ongoing conflict of conformity versus one’s true self has always never been easy for me to understand. Is it the decisions we make in life that dictate who we are as a person, or the other way around? Similarly, how can we never conform to society’s norms when we are surrounded by people who change and influence our decisions since the moment we are born? Is our truest form to “ourselves” in the womb before our little decision-making minds come into contact with other little decision-making minds, and even then, our mothers dictate our diet? For this reason and many others, I seem to always look confused when a person tells me to be “true to myself,” mostly because I’m not sure who that may be.