Identity Theft

Your identity is at risk of being stolen, and yet maybe we should not be so quick to fear identity theft.  Why? you ask.  Because if someone steals our identity then there may be a chance that we can find out who we are.  Am I my name?  Am I my social security number?  Am I my credit score or report?  Am I my credit or debit card?  Am I my rights and freedoms as an American, or a Nicaraguan, or a Korean?  Who am I?

Am I heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or multisexual?  Is that who I am?  Am I white, black, Euro-American, African-American, or Indigenous to America before white people called it America? Am I a Hoosier or a Buckeye or a Wildcat?  Is that who I am?

Am I good at talking to people?  Am I bad at staying on task?  Am I good at letting other people do things for me (delegating)?  Am I athletic?  Nerdy?  Non-technological?  Am I my Myers-Briggs Personality E.S.P.N.?

Am I a christian?  What is that?  Can that identity be stolen?  Why?  Why not?

What aspect of who I am cannot be stolen?

Am I a husband?  Am I a father?  Can that be stolen?

Is Identity vs. Role Confusion during the period of adolescence the main point for us to wrestle with, often long after we should be adolescents?

While you concern yourself with your financial and legal identity being stolen, pause to ask if there is any part of your identity that cannot be stolen.  What will remain after the hackers rise up?