I love the word re-invention. It gets me all giddy and excited, because it means that you are actively working on becoming more YOU. 

Over the holidays, my family likes to reminisce a bit about our old times and that includes the different funny (& sometimes strange :)) phases my brothers and I went through. For example, I went through what my family calls  "Caroline's punk phase": I dyed my hair black and wore enormous black "tractor" shoes. Thinking about my life so far, I can clearly see that I have tried on many different personas because I was eagerly searching for myself. I was trying to find out who I was, what fit and where I felt at home. 

This is an extremely important part of life and I believe that "finding oneself" never ends.