The Self is conflicted between diverging identities of the past and present. In some sense identities are always changing - a process of growth and decay, and growth again. However, specific moments of divergence creates a dynamic change in one's own psyche, where continuity of past and present no longer is an easy narrative to identify with. How can the Self identify with its own conscious thought, without the ability to see beyond the change of moments past?
This is important because as beings in a process of psychological and philosophical change, we are always individuating the Self from the moments past. After catastrophic, Self shattering change of the past, the Self reemerges by aimlessly roaming the question of identity, while striving to reconstruct a viable narrative. The influence of previous moments in the Self's collective history becomes important in the process of spiritual and intellectual survival. But time and space are in motion. What used to be near is so distant in the present. Without the influence and existence of those influential parts of history the Self may remain aimless in its own existence.
The Self must therefore take it upon itself to Will a world that is acceptable. In this process of growth, the environment and the variables become an influential component of how it reconstructs itself. The devastation that it finds itself to be in, is limiting the potentialities of future success in re-identifying the Self to a narrative - a freedom beyond the confines of Self isolation.
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