The demand for self-determination arrives before there is a self to determine. Told to sit down, the native stands; told to stand, sits. This is not preference but reflex, and it fires hardest against the people with the most legitimate claim on them. Family life is the first casualty. There is usually a rupture with a parent in the late teens or early twenties, conducted with more finality than the offence deserved, and remembered afterwards with a mixture of pride and unease.
In work the pattern is brilliance followed by exit. The native produces something genuinely new, is congratulated, and then finds the resulting position unbearable within eighteen months, because success has turned into an expectation and expectation feels like a hand on the shoulder. Colleagues describe them as difficult and also send them the problems nobody else can solve. Money is erratic for the same reason. Reversals tend to be sudden rather than gradual, and the native half arranges them.
The friction is genuinely productive, which is why the aspect should not be written off as instability. It forces the question of what the native is actually for, and it will not accept an inherited answer. Development means learning that freedom kept in reserve is worth more than freedom spent, and that one can dissent without resigning. Those who learn it become reformers rather than escapees, changing institutions from a chair inside them. The nervous cost stays high throughout, and this contact needs sleep, exercise and solitude more than most charts do.
What It Gives
- ◆refusal to be quietly owned
- ◆inventive under real constraint
- ◆honest about institutional nonsense
- ◆courage to begin again
What It Costs
- ◆rupture chosen over negotiation
- ◆success abandoned once it settles
- ◆nervous strain and poor rest
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