An awareness of becoming is revealed to one’s consciousness – a becoming that takes place when the mind has been given the freedom to reimagine its nature of existence, and consequently reshape the environment it finds itself operating in – imposing a new layer of meaning.
Social construct emphasises the continuity of the collective more than the individual. This dynamic presents an ideology that presents the individual as sacrificial for the sake of the group, an ideology subconsciously imposed on the individual who begins to formulate their own identity based on the necessity of their role for the collective.
Correcting the need for a sacrificial persona within the context of the collective doesn’t necessarily require a breakdown of the collective but a reformed (re-informed) mind in the individual to be able to repurpose the nature of this dynamic so that existence serves both the ambitions of the individual and the needs of the collective with a meaning-adding approach as a symbiotic process.
In nature, nothing exists without an intended purpose or function; and this often has multiple facets. The nature of a thing such as a person or in the context of this book, a tree – lies within how everything external to it interacts with it and its properties. To this end, self-identification outside of the environment may introduce a false sense of purpose, if explicitly measured by relatively contributed value to others. If the centre point of the search is to establish a meaning for existence internally, then such a being must also consider the nature of its purpose in the context of what it needs from its environment to be sustained; A tree’s focus shifts from the people taking fruits and branches from it to the sun, soil and water that also sustain it.