Note to self

P. 88 THE PROTEAN SELF by Robert Jay Lifton

"For the young Indian woman protagonist of Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, the very openness to transformation gives strength and form: "I changed because I wanted to. To bunker oneself inside nostalgia, to sheathe the heart in a bulletproof vest, was to be a coward."


TO BUNKER ONSELF INSIDE NOSTALGIA

So easy to do.. so important to avoid.