[smeej]

I think it works. Once. Especially if you're young.

I think almost everyone could stand to strip away all the should in their life, everything everybody's always told them they should be, should want, etc. Radically question it, once.

Because once you do, you have to answer the question. Who are you? Who do you want to be? And then do the hard work of becoming that person.

Otherwise it becomes too easy to treat it as a "solution" every time things get hard, because it worked that one time. But you never grow robust if you uproot too often. You'll find yourself old and withered and dry and disconnected.