you and your metaphorical beach

Personality is like a beach; all beaches are different in the same ways and yet very much different in the same way.  The beach that you left may not be the beach to which you return, even when it is. Indeed the beach is a collection of sand, stones, and life flowing through time, undulating beneath the tidal ebb and flow of progression and regression; Always a new discovery, adventure, or story to be lived. The beach is the product of weathering on the indigenous stone, the interaction of flora, and fauna.  Nature is the genetic endowment, a few reactionary impulses from the collective unconscious, and nurture manifests from the agitation and erosion of rocks against each other, of beaches over one another as they move up and down the coastline.   Just as each of our experiences shape the nature and nurture of our previous existence, that existence guides the future experiences.  And yet when we so choose we can build a castle in the sand, shape the beach, in an iterative and recursive process the diligence of the individual can match that of the ocean in shaping the works of time.  Personally I enjoy sharing the beach, and sharing in the personality of others, even more so since I come with the proper equipment.

U c a rock on the shore and say: "it's always been there"