Identity is an Orange, in Segments

Identity, multiple. Identity, according to the situation. Identity, dependent on environment and people. Identity, age-appropriate. Identity, unique, but singular only in that one is distinguishable at one time, and in another, another. Identity is more than its physical definitions, which have at their base the individual characteristics by which a person or thing is recognised, for identity, that created within, is an unfixed state. At its centre a fixed core, from which other identities, or, if you'd rather, aspects of your personality, radiate. No-one met with, conversed with, shared intimate moments with, perhaps even a life, will ever know the whole. Identity is an orange, in segments.

Picture credit: Still Life With Oranges, 1881, Paul Gauguin (source: WikiArt).

From journal entry, June 2021.