I'm not sure that you can isolate yourself from the world. I know what you are talking about. You don't want to have everything around you influence you and change you. So you believe that by keeping yourself seperate you will stay true to yourself. You're afraid of becoming like everyone else. In fact you won't. We change, we grow, we become more of ourselves. Even if we were to totally isolate ourselves in a glass cage, we would change. We are not static and we can't force ourselves to be. But we have choices we can make. We can have terrible things happen to us and still be a good person. We can have a wonderful life and still be selfish. You see what I mean, we have the choice to become what we want.
We will be influenced, even rocks are worn by wind and rain, but we can remain true to ourselves if that is what we want.
You become more of yourself when you share in the rest of the world. No matter what you do you will change, embrace that change.
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