Is it so strange to suggest that personality is shaped, meaningful selfhood undertaken, individuation achieved, through the manipulation of varied, complex and ramifying relations to a larger neighbourhood or family or world? Not just words, but people too, make sense only in a context or setting. And this setting does not have to be static. As much as any person, one's personal setting, place or function can and will be altered, refined, expanded, fitted, shaped, balanced, harmonized, electrified, and authenticated through action.
Actions are guided by values. Yet received, conventional, neighbourhood values are actively culled, sorted, weighted and shaped by individuals. This routine is circular, of course, but the circle is integral and alive: integral because it cannot be avoided, and alive because its content changes constantly.
I don't claim that this is how things should be; this is how they are.
In all this complicated process of acting, the play writes itself, constrained and undetermined.
Never say to someone, “Be what you are.” That isn't possible.
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