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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A lot of people are stuck in place from the delusion that their personality is somehow *them*, and that it's therefore somehow sacrosanct.
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But most of what we call personality is just habit, clothing, environment - the stuff we wear, not the stuff we *are*.
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Over time, as alignment with reality is lost when new perspectives are taken on but not integrated, personality grows less stable...
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... which is probably a contributing factor to why our culture has so many complete, utterly lost basket cases.
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