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How am I not myself?

— Brad Stand  ·  I Heart Huckabees

A tilted glass jar containing a golden question mark, resting on plum velvet.
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An editorial interpretation.

The question resists a distinction between the person someone is and the person they are supposed to be. Its wording makes that distinction sound paradoxical: even an allegedly false version still belongs to the same self. The short challenge asks what being oneself could actually exclude.

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