DISQUS

susan · 4 years ago

There's another option, besides either tossing old selves away or ignoring them--looking straight at them, strip away the trappings to get to the important stuff, and try to integrate them and/or just make sense of them as part of the story-of-your-life you are carrying around with you. If you can't look back at the old yous and accept them, how can you be sure, when you think you are becoming a better person, that you aren't just running away from yourself to another temporary place? Sorry if that is a bit blunt but it is a feeling I have had myself sometimes.

chris · 4 years ago

I think you hit the nail on the head. I think you definitely need to face and accept the truth about the past before you can evolve from it.