Identities in motion

The EDWC make an excellent point about individual and collective identities being in constant motion in time; however, it is also very easy to get stuck in time by telling the same stories about our experiences over and over. We remember a childhood hurt with a five-year-old's perspective unless we are willing to rewrite the story with an adult mind and accumulated experience. We "write the stories of our life" (aka memories) and act like those stories cannot be revised, when the truth is that others who lived the same experiences will come away with different stories. And then we project our stories onto others by assuming they have similar perspectives and experiences. It seems to me that awareness of this social construction of identity and the possibility of "rewriting" it is one of the main goals of comp/rhet.