the changing self - starting from nix

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but isn't it so lovely in the way it fades?

Nasturtiums by Odilon Redon Recently I’ve been reflecting on how fluid our identities are, how much capacity we have for change. From Pseudonymous Identity: “A part of yourself is completely unexplored till you meet a particular person or go to a particular place.” And Murakami: “Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?” I left Asia after high school because I knew there was a different self waiting for me across the border. It’s nostalgic every time I go back. I see an old ghost of myself in every corner, every…

the changing self - starting from nix

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