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Cedar  ·  3032 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If you had the opportunity to remake yourself, would you?

    We all know who we are ...

I've got to disagree. That's something we all want and strive for but I think its fair to say some people just don't know and haven't yet worked it out. Look at young LGBT people, it's easy to find cases were a youth would suffer severe depression and identity crises because they knew something about them was not as they wanted, but didn't have the education and life experiences to know what that was at the time.

I'm the type who creates a character in a game, plays for ages, then decides to delete and make a new one. This is a pretty terrible trait as it means I'm never happy with my own real life character and reality makes it pretty difficult to reinvent yourself.