Spent most of the previous year coming to terms with power and responsibility - concepts heavily distorted by my upbringing/culture.
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Although a lot of that has been uncomfortable from start to finish, and it's difficult to really, deep down accept it, it's been instructive
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As a result, I'm finally starting to feel like I can shed some old skin and take on a bit of a new personality - stronger and healthier.
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. True so far as personality goes, but your body is a bit more than just a collection of habits & impulses.
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. The point being precisely that personality is not the limit of identity - or in fact, not much of an identity at all.
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. Maybe true in an anthropological sense, but I'm talking about identity as a synonym for "being", if you follow.
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. Your body and existence are not socially predicated. That would be nonsensical. Identity-as-social-signal is a different idea.
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So, Identity likely starts from the sense of continued existence in an individual body...
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