Regis College - Mount Regis Yearbook (Weston, MA)

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For me, individuality connotes precious, thought-filled, uniqueness. Where individuality is cherished, there is continuous striving in the direction of creative becoming. There is a heightened awareness of the expansion of human faculties and attentiveness to the styling of an inward disposition which seems to be the fruit of my own activity. Of consequence to me are the impressions I am constantly assimilating from the changing context of the world in which I find myself, the memories I am recovering to carry with me, the affections I am owing as I move through successive stages of my life helping to create the future. Matters of importance to me— my perceptions, my remembrances, my loves, my judgments— must be twice lived that through reflection I may discover those forms— or pollutions— in my empirical soil which my thought or activity first took and which now must be jettisoned. Over and over again I begin; I tear myself away from myself in search of new forms. The freedom of all persons to experience this beginning fills me with excitement and with a longing to share in the infinitude of patterns which are being woven. As numberless, precious, thought-filled, unique individuals make progress toward completion, I believe they experience the end as the beginning, supporting the life that is given far more than it is formed. —Sister Viterbo McCarthy 16