Who we are is the unwitting result of our time. Our architecture, art, language, culture, ect. has been evolving through all of human history.
Suddenly, I find myself facing the reality of that truth; desiring to understand who I am in the context of human history--the culture I inhabit as what it is, a reaction to what has come before.
We are born in medias res. Thrust into the midst of a story that has been going long before us and which will continue after us, to know where we stand, why we are where we are, we must know where we've been.
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You sound very much like Sam Gamgee. The beauty is that the story is bigger than we are. We are not the only part played, and unlike Macbeth it is not "signifying Nothing".
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