One area of being human that has long fascinated me is the obsession with identity - our need to either align or to distance ourselves with or from a group. I grew up in Newfoundland after it became part of Canada. In one sense I am a first generation Canadian and a 7th generation Newfoundlander.
But of course being humans we cannot just stop with group identity we have to try to sort out our individual identity as well. Perhaps this is the price of being self-aware. The thing about identity it is only fixed in the moment and continually being constructed over time. Time changes us all and we never are who we were or who we are going to be.
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