How different is your true self? Has this changed over your life?

How different is your true self? Has this changed over your life?
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The differences seem less and less significant with time. Not that there are fewer differences now, more that the differences just don’t much matter. I don’t care anymore about distinguishing myself in this or that, like I did decades ago. I don’t want to be special. Our common ordinariness is good enough for me.
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