Are we so reactionary as creatures that we do not change unless someone else forces us to? Are we like pool balls, sitting forever in a fixed pattern until an interpersonal cue ball blasts us into motion? I think not, although we do suffer a kind of inner inertia when circumstances precipitate a transition. But it is not as mechanical as the table full of pool balls. Rather, we are more like stories that are slowly unfolding according to our own preestablished inner themes and plots. Each person’s life is a story that is telling itself in the living of it, and each requires others to play
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