Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 4: Growing Into Yourself (early access)
The moral case for knowing how to take on society's morals for yourself.
When did you become who you are?
Was there a point at which you went from wanting to become someone or something to actually being that person? When did it happen? Does it ever really happen? For many people, it's never something they can directly identify. There's just a point at which you are who you are and that becomes you. They have certain ideas about who they want to become, but sometimes those moments never come about. In the meantime, people do other things, try other ideas to pay the bills and become a functional member of society on their way towards achieving their goals. Whether people want to or not, they end up becoming who they are. It then becomes about what you do when that happens.
Previously in this space, we looked at the importance of accepting responsibility for your actions, then at what it means to live with the consequences of those actions. More recently we examined how to choose a future knowing all of these are part of becoming an adult. However, once you end up in that place where you know who you want to be and hopefully have things in place, that's far from the end of the process. You have to then work towards actually being that person. Making the choices which allow you to make that be what you do for a living. If you're lucky, those choices will end up where you want them to, but sometimes you have to make some changes.
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