Tell Us As You Write Your Story: What Will Change?

Something is going to change. Oh, yes. Be certain of it.

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I’m talking about gender transition, 25 years later. A certain change is complete, yet something is always changing. Who we are is not only who we’ve been but who we’ll become.

We care so much about understanding who we are partly because our selfhood positions us to show up and live through more changes. Of those changes: some we choose, some are chosen for us, some just happen. All blow through us.

Something is going to change. Be certain of it. You already know something about that future. It’s already part of you, and you’re already part of it. That’s today’s writing prompt.

Classic Paradoxes of Change

A few old philosophical conundrums:

• Given inertia, how does anything begin to move?
• Given identity, how does anything become something else?
• Given freedom, how can outcomes be predicted?
• Given reality, what’s the point of desiring anything else?
• Given change, when is it obvious it’s been completed?
• Given facts, what’s left to be interpreted?
• Given past, how can we…