Once you are free, you will be absolutely free. Living in chains for so many years and having your identity mercilessly intertwined to this impossible document is a temporary state. It will end. And at the end, you will be standing in a landscape that you can fill in any way that you choose. You will be able to re-create, redefine and reshape who and what you want to be. Having finished, you can choose where to go next, and it can be almost anywhere that you want to go.
It is worth the pain of finishing the dissertation to regain your agency so utterly and completely. It feels clean. It feels triumphant (it is something of a shock). You will be reborn into a new phase of your life and you can choose never to put on such chains ever again, if that is what you want.
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Date: 2005-11-15 05:17 am (UTC)Once you are free, you will be absolutely free. Living in chains for so many years and having your identity mercilessly intertwined to this impossible document is a temporary state. It will end. And at the end, you will be standing in a landscape that you can fill in any way that you choose. You will be able to re-create, redefine and reshape who and what you want to be. Having finished, you can choose where to go next, and it can be almost anywhere that you want to go.
It is worth the pain of finishing the dissertation to regain your agency so utterly and completely. It feels clean. It feels triumphant (it is something of a shock). You will be reborn into a new phase of your life and you can choose never to put on such chains ever again, if that is what you want.