I've been reading Gregg Clare's weblog for a while now. Gregg is a very interesting and smart
guy. He's also funny as hell. The other day he discussed the
concept of "finding one's self" and the bullshit calling it that
implies.

I completely agree with him. Life is a constant evolution and it is only
natural to continue growing and changing. I hate when I see or talk to people I
haven't seen or talked to in a long time and they say, "Oh you're still the
same". That's such crap! In a few ways I am the same (a
sly wit dry as a bone, of course.), but as a whole, I'm completely different than I was
fifteen, ten or five years ago. Hell, I think I've changed a lot in the
last year alone.

I think the people who say that are the ones who really don't change. They
still live in the same sad little town they always have and do the same sad
little things they always do. There's not a lot of introspection going on
with them. You may remember a
phone call I received last year. That call was from one of these
people.

One comment to Gregg's post had this wonderful quote:

"The self is not something one finds, it is something that one
creates." — Thomas Szasz

I love that quote. I think everyone has the power to change. Whether
they do or not is up to them.