Maybe 'becoming' is quite external, fluid. One thing we can be sure of is change. It keeps on happening and it rolls over us, around us, and through us and marks little marks all over us that change in big and in little ways, our relationship to everything. Sometimes we don't even notice the little 'marks' that are made and sometimes we do, but each second, each minute etc. etc. that we live we change. So.........perhaps 'becoming' is not static, not something that we consciously control, not a road or a journey, but something that is constant and ongoing - changing. For example, in many ways we have 'become' within the concept that we are talking about, as a result of our awareness, first of all, of the dreadful and devastating tsunami, but then through each death toll estimation, through each image that is flashed before us, through each conversation, different in some way. Our relationship with the world we live in, our understanding or compassion for our fellow humans maybe has changed? In small ways for example, if we walk with soft feet over the ground it hurts so from then on we wear shoes. Our relationship to the earth we walk on would have changed as a result. What I am suggesting is that 'becoming' has a fluidity - we are perhaps always in the process of 'becoming' and that is the end in itself, the process of..........?