How does memory shape the “self”?

Before I did this memory assignment, I never realized that my memory from early childhood can have hug influence with my characteristic, it shaped most of my characteristic and it is unavoidable because when we as a baby, we can not choice our parents, the only thing we can do is to listen and obey them, follow their rules and order, let them shape our characteristic for us and we will became the perfect child they want to have. After I read the article: Girl, I finally realize that we limit our self in a zone which is designed by the hyper-ego, because they are the first person we know from the world so we see them as the truth of everything, we inherit their thought and their values of this world, yes we absorb it and let it became to part of our self so we know how to live in this world. I always ask myself, why i am so depressed, sensitive and negative,  until i did this assignment and i notices that my mother is this kind of person, she puts very high standard on herself and my and always complain to me about her life, never feel happy in her life, and i am kind growing up in a single family, that is why I absorbed part of my mother’s characteristic and her rules and it became to who I am today. It made me give my self limit of life and thought. It has shape the “self”.

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