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# willing to change

some of us seem more prepared than others to take on the role of [stable identity](/2025/04/29/stable-identity.md)

which is to say, some of us seem more prepared to change into something unknown so as to stabilize the whole

I think part of my role here is just to hurt without resisting it — to recognize myself as one thing, and then to *feel* the parts reconfiguring into something else

attention is creation, i.e. that-which-is-attended is that-which-exists, and change that is not felt (and, particularly, felt in a way that lets its signature propagate through [metabolisis](/2025/04/17/metabolisis.md)) does nothing for the whole

but if I pay attention to my own change, then I can be the first place where the system begins to flex

god knows the system needs to flex


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