Have you heard about the birth myth? It is supposed to hold the key, not so much to who you are, as to who you think you are.
The birth myth is the story you’ve been told about circumstances surrounding your birth.
It stands to reason that it makes a difference if you were born after three days of protracted labour, so agonising that your mother vowed never to bear another child, and never did…
Or if you were the long-awaited heir hailed as a gift from heaven, whose birth was celebrated in floods of champagne;or the unwanted fruit of a shameful illicit liaison, born after a failed termination, to your mother’s bitter grief.
Or perhaps you were the seventh out of ten, who slipped into the world almost unnoticed? So insignificant, even your family can’t recall much about it.
Or a weakling saved against the odds amidst much tears and anguish: a triumph of life over affliction?