Heidegger’s conception of human existence (or, as calls it, Dasein, ‘being-there’) echoes Kierkegaard’s conception of the “self”. Rather than being an object among others, Dasein is a “relation of being” (Seinsverhältnis; Heidegger 1962 [1927]: 12)—a relation that obtains between what one is at any moment and what one can and will be as the temporally extended unfolding of life into a realm of possibilities. To conceive Dasein as relational means that in living out our lives, we always already care: for each of us, our being is always at issue and this is made concrete in the specific actions we undertake and the roles we enact. Over the course of our lives, our identities are always in question: we are always projections into the future, incessantly taking a stand on who we are.