Self-AlterationMany of us feel a pressing desire to be differentto be other than who we are. Self conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical question about how other people change, self alteration is also a practical carecan I