Choosing Identification
Elegir la identificación
A student questions whether identification is something that simply happens to them, and the teacher reframes it as a free choice worth contemplating.
Choosing Identification
A student questions whether identification is something that simply happens to them, and the teacher reframes it as a free choice worth contemplating.
Is it the same as saying I'm also choosing to be identified?
Yes.
One hundred percent? Because I feel like it's something that happens to me, something I can't avoid.
Exactly. If you feel this is happening to you and you can't get out of it, you can't stop it, that itself is a free choice. You're choosing that. So again, I would say: contemplate, what if you're wrong and I'm right? I'm not asking you to believe me. I'm just asking you to contemplate it.
That I'm choosing it?
That you're choosing it. That it's not happening to you. That you do have the power to change it.
I like that.