Tracking change is difficult. More so when all I have are scraps of evidence. Memories change, reinterpreted by the self. Gradual change only consciously noticed when something happens to point it out.
But if I had to hazard a guess, the last 3 or 4 years was a time of emotional and psychological development, the last year especially intellectual. And I feel quite sure that development isn’t complete yet, it’ll be slower perhaps, but it’ll still be there.
And knowing that everyone goes through these changes in the same approximate period doesn’t help. I am one of many, a generation of adolescents and post-adolescents, focused on the self.
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Thoughts of random chance. Is there any, really? Your biography influences personality, influences life choices. Do we choose our majors, interests, careers, or do they choose us?
How much of me was created by society, or in reaction to it? Would I still be this introspective if I had been born in a different society, or even in a different family? If alternate realities exist, would we have our own personalities, or would it be vastly different, or would we even be here?
Questions without answers.
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I’m supposed to write about the importance of history for french tutorial later. How do I do that when I’m still muddling about trying to figure out the abstract?
