liv - he does this every time something upsets him, i swear. get some new material.

[darknessb4me]

[Filtered away from graduated inmates and from Tirion, Martha, and Sarah. Audio.]

We are defined by we do. Identity therefore is not an idea or a definition, but a series of acts taken. The future tends to come to abrupt and violent ends, so your life is measured by your past. What you have done is what you are.

[He smiles.]What you have done

Comments

[championoftime]

What about what happens to you? How much does it comprise what you are? And how much of what you will do constitutes what you can be?

[darknessb4me]

The passive person allows themselves to be defined by what the world does to them, instead of what they do to the world.

What someone can be is not relevant here, because ninety nine times out of a hundred, what you will be is dead, just like you were before you came.

[championoftime]

But you're still leaving out what you will do. What you won't do. And if things that happened to you didn't change you, no one would hever become angry and lash out when they did.

[darknessb4me]

No one will do anything here, is what I'm saying. Once you've arrived, you can't do anything of significance.

[championoftime]

What's "of significance"?