For all of us the Responsibilities of Self-Belonging, whether consciously accepted or unconsciously absorbed from culture, are experienced as perpetual inadequacy. Your life is never justified, you are always in the process of validating your existence. Your identity is never secure, you are always in the process of discovering and proclaiming and defining who you are. Meaning is never given; it is always being reinterpreted or reasserted. Values are never certain; they are always being renegotiated. And belonging is never attained; it is always dislocated.
