A Human Strategy #522: Being Authentic



522

I am no more than the outcome to my condition.  I cannot remove myself and be who I am.  I cannot deny the relation and be authentic. 

I cannot recognize my inauthenticity and feel anything other than regret.  I then regret everything that had hitherto motivated me to misalign myself to my condition.  If one is not happy with authenticity, it is only because one has not yet completed the journey.  Authenticity is the tip of this last regret beyond which one suddenly values one’s own existence.

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