<p>Dig, this is a great post! Maybe kids in trying to understand really who they are at this juncture in their life can ask themselves “what nickname would I give myself?” What is my background, interests, what do I truly love? For example, though my son is a musician, oboe and composition, he saw himself as a kid who had spent his entire life on borders learning to cross them, physically, mentally and although he didn’t say it, spiritually. He wrote a musical composition about this in his junior year and his essay was based on this. Although music ran through everything he did, that was not how he saw himself. He wasn’t the musicman or the oboekid, he was constantly crossing the line.</p>