The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 50 of 254
I am my baggage
it seems to me that a consistent set of personality traits is not a person. Janet’s metaphors seem to get it exactly wrong. I am my baggage. I am the layers that have grown on the onion, not the tiny core at the middle. We are precisely all the things we’ve accrued, the memories, the experience, the learning. If you strip away what you call the baggage you’re stripping away precisely the things that make us, that fill us out.