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Help answer one of Philosophy's greatest questions: Is a person truly himself if he is subject to change?
for example: are you truly the same person before a meal as after you've finished? if so, are you to be required to pay the tab? how about the food? it too, underwent rapid changes and is certainly not as it was delivered...
AJJ

Transient Selves

You are your changes, nothing is totally still

The ocean is still the ocean no matter the waves

Without the churning it would be stagnant

Dead, existing in form but not substance

As we would be if unchanged throughout time

Without this ability to move, evolve

We would only ever be our past version

Never our true, actual transient selves