A Key Role In Shaping Personal Identity
People can define their personal identity in any number of ways. Whether that is through their job, their relationship to another person, or through their interests. My identity is strongly linked to the music I listen to. I think a moment that played a key role in shaping my identity was when I went to my first punk show. I was 14 years old and was friends with several skaters. My one friend Andrew had a half pipe at his house, along with a barn. When the skate park in our town was about to be shut down, a benefit was held at Andrew’s barn. My friend’s band, along with many others played that day and we raised enough money to keep the skate park open. I had never experienced an event like that, so many friends in one place, so many bands I