It was a first step in a journey towards my independence, finding out if I could emerge from the stupor of the past seven years to start a new life. People do it, Herman had said. They change careers midway, go to college again, begin anew, because the self is not a fixed, immutable thing but a core around which our hopes and acts fashion fresh layers of being every day. There are no laws that say you cannot become much more than your environment asks of you, nothing that prevents you from seizing the circumstances and shaping a unique role for yourself in the flux.
From the brilliant novel "Surface" by Siddartha Debb.
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