Selbsterkenntnis (January 6, 2003)

[hmpf]

Perhaps my central ‘trauma’ is growing up, because I seem to identify most with a special kind of sadness caused by a loss of innocence, a loss of freedom. . . it’s present in almost every book or film or series that ever moved me.
So what does it mean? -- Still growing up? Never growing up? Already grown up but regretting it?
Food for thought. . .

On second thought: I was oversimplifying. But it does seem to be a central theme for me. *A*, not the.