We do not really know who we are or who we could be; 'self-determination' is but a false slogan; all we can do is create relatively stable selves for ourselves. And even that too depends on the people we are around, the climate we are in, how we are dependent on others, how we let others see us and determine us, what we would like to project upon others, and what we take to be our joys and sorrows.
We are unknown to ourselves; we cannot fathom our own depths -- and who knows whether there is really anything to fathom at all...
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and if one does not even know her own depths, who she is and who she could be, it is hard for an other to know as well. One must build a self to hold onto as much as to give to others. One can only cling to this self in faith and pray that the suffocating heat and numbing cold of different climates doesn't shake that self away, but warms and harvests the seeds of the self she wants to become.
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