Invitation Response 2: A moment of Self Realization The feeling of being different from others, the feeling of not belonging with a group. The feeling of not understanding why I am so different from the others.Why must I feel this way? I may be different on the outside but my inside are just the same. I still carry feelings, emotions, flesh and blood. Why must I feel so different and so out of place. For years I did not know who I was? Why now? Why did I have to know? I was so happy and vibrant with life and now I question myself each and every day. How was I dumb enough to not know who I truly was. How was I unaware of who my true identity is? All these questions are building up in my head, I don’t know who I am, where I belong, and why must I change how I feel about myself. My mirror placed across from me and not once have I thought to glance at it, to look at myself in the mirror for once maybe I would’ve known my true identity sooner. Why did I have to be so different? Why do I have to feel so out of place? Why do I have to change who I am? The same questions race through my head as I look at myself in the mirror. Realizing your true identity may change you as a whole, being someone you had no idea you were changes your whole perspective. Janie in this context believed she was just like the rest of the group, white. Janie did not know who she really was until she saw a photograph of herself. Self realization of your own identity may change you. Self realization of who you really are is scary because it is new, just like Janie we’ve all had moments of self realization. Self realization pulls you away from who you thought you were. It helps you change and form into the person you want to become.