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When that happened I was able to use reason to better digest the world around me and not let different ideas bash into me like waves. Everything around us has more in common than most would like to see.
If "we are who we are by doing what we do" then we can change who we are by changing what we do. Stop going to the office and start surfing and you 'are' a surfer instead of an attorney. When you actually 'get' the possibilities for 'being' different things, life starts to look a lot longer. Who do you want to be today?
I used to be a bit more strident in my positions in life; right was always right and wrong was always wrong as defined by my morality. But I've realized that multiple moralities exist: especially when compared across cultures, traditions and different times in history. I often wonder what conventions we hold as absolute will be either proved wrong or viewed very differently in the future: and if I've learned anything from history is that shifting moralities is not a possibility but a guarantee.
At other times I've lived with a little less control, regimen, schedule.
Neither extreme has been good to me.
Learning that it's ok to change my mind, that it's ok to be wrong, and that it's ok to be publicly wrong, has been great to me.
(hard to go wrong with a C.S. Lewis quote, btw...)