I guess my question is. Are you the sum of your experiences or are you something more shaped by your experiences?
Don't think I am disrespecting the answers given by others. I admire the ability to answer at all. I know the answers they give are at least insight to who they are, and may be all well can know of each other.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe