An identity without an identity

 An Identity Without an Identity

In this world, everything — every living or non-living being — holds an identity, a name, a value. Whether it’s a person, an insect, a tree, or even something we cannot see but can only feel — each carries its own distinct existence. Be it a small creature invisible to our naked eyes or be it the air which we can only feel rather than touch or see. 

When a child is born, the world first recognizes them through the identity of their parents. But as they grow, they begin to create and live through an identity of their own. This world accepts them with open arms and hearts and allows them to dream the path of education,Job,Marriage,being parents and much more.With this identity of their own and parents identity they are given the right to do everything that they desire and dream of. Yet, in our society, there are children (Care leavers) who are denied even this simple right — the right to know who they are and where they come from.These are the children who do not know their parents, their family, or sometimes even the community they belong to. The world knows them only by a single name — the one they were given, or perhaps the one they chose. As they grow up, they carve that name — that identity — deep within their hearts, as if engraving it on stone. The truth is that they dream, they hope, and they wish just like every other child. They want to make a life out of their identity — the only one they have.

But what happens when the world refuses to accept that identity alone?

When a child who has fought through discrimination and struggle finally builds a dream, why does the world ask for something else — for their parents’ name, their family background, their social identity? Why does the education system, the job market, even politics first ask, “Who are your parents?” instead of, “Who are you?”Why does a society that calls itself modern still measure a person’s worth by the identity of their family and not by their own efforts?

A care leaver — who has faced countless hardships just to stand on their own feet — often loses opportunities, not because of lack of talent, but because of a missing “second identity.” When they dare to dream — to choose a leader, to vote, to work, to build a future — they are reminded again and again of what they do not have.

Every care leaver learns to rebuild themselves after every fall. Yet, each time they rise, society pulls them back — not for their mistakes, but for the absence of something beyond their control. Dreams are crushed not because they were impossible, but because the world still refuses to see a person as an individual rather than as an extension of their family.

Even today, after so much progress — after all our education, our technology, our claim to modernity — our thinking remains bound by centuries-old beliefs. We still measure human worth by lineage, not by individuality.

Isn’t their personal identity enough?Is it their fault that they don’t have another name to stand behind?Isn't it time we changed this mindset?Isn’t it time we allowed every person — especially every care leaver — to live, dream, and succeed on the strength of their own identity?