interesting article on be myself and like myself on 43 Things

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interesting article 4 months ago

in today’s Grauniad about the concept of making a fresh start.

Here’s where it gets weird: “The concept of the fresh start suggests a very bizarre notion of the self. It implies that you can “stand back” from your personality characteristics, nominate some of them for change, then set to work. But, obviously, we are those characteristics; they define us. The self doing the work is the self being acted upon. This needn’t mean change is impossible – clearly, it isn’t – but it makes things vastly more complicated. It means we’re inescapably implicated in what we’re trying to leave behind, and it makes the idea of a fresh start highly suspect.”

I wonder if I should re-open this goal?

Aug 08, 01:54AM PDT | 10 cheers

Comments:

SimplyStacey

hmm, I can see what the article is saying...

But I personally am in love with the idea of the fresh start. I’m not giving it up for anything!

Aug 08, 04:52AM PDT | Respond to this 5 cheers

joie de vivre is mellow

Your past is Fate. Right now is Freedom. You can’t escape your past, but your moment of personal power is right now, right here. Every moment is a fresh start, a new opportunity, a new chance to begin, or begin again.

Aug 08, 07:38PM PDT | Respond to this 2 cheers

Axx

I think

that notion has hit the nail on the head with why, no matter how hard I try, fresh starts always send me right back to where I was. Maybe it’s not a notion of fresh start that is needed…... maybe just a spring clean and updating is what is required, allowing you to keep the bits that make you you in a positive way, but allowing you the freedom to ditch those bits that hold you back.

Great goal by the way, absolutely love it.

Aug 25, 01:41PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 6 cheers

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