You Are How You Have Lived: Exploring Individual and Group Identity Tod Swenson

Each of us has an original way of being human: each person has his or her own “measure.” There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else’s life… This notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.                                 ~ Charles Taylor, cultural philosopher