We still chose each other to be members of the families that we needed, as opposed to the families we were born with. It is no small thing to have the ability to make that choice; in fact, it’s probably the most important decision we get to make in life. Which is why I make it, time and time again. I’ve carefully built my own community over the years, because if there’s one clear lesson that I learned from my hermitic childhood, it’s that you need lots of people around you if you’re ever going to find your true self. Listening to one voice, and one voice only, doesn’t make you a human being.
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