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If a thing wasn’t open to being related, it wouldn’t appear at all (and hence not be a thing). Beings are always already exposed to others. And yet, they also cover themselves over: beings are tricksters.
While beings keep some of themselves back, it is not as essence or core; their relatedness is constituted by the revealing-concealing interplay of aspects. This also means that a being isn’t most itself for itself — a being isn’t one hundred percent in itself, and subsequently gives off one hundred minus X to others; a being is itself for others and with others, it’s constituted in its relatedness to others, and hence is itself through reaching out beyond itself. This constitution includes faces it shows and ones it could show with further investigation. No being is transparent, nor fully present to itself.
Because beings surprise us, and because beings require us and others to be what they are, we can surprise ourselves: we don’t know how we’d react in every situation. We may also think of ourselves in a given way, and yet others may see closer to the truth, for we cannot fully see ourselves.
In turning away from itself, a thing becomes itself.