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When you realize, I’m no longer the same person I was back then.
Memories are one of the most powerful energies we work with. You can instantly conjure up a short snippet or movie trailer, if you will, of any past time in your life.
Keep in mind, what you remember is only a recording of your perspective. Your thoughts, emotions, and filters of what happened. Anyone else who you interacted with at the time likely has a somewhat different visual playing in their mind.
I experienced an interesting phenomenon. In revisiting a previous period of my life, I was simultaneously who I was back then, and who I am right now.
I got sort of lost in my past persona. Reliving old memories through the trigger of social media. Looking up people who used to play a central role in my life and working through the emotions of how we’ve both moved on.
Witnessing the gap of what I missed by no longer being connected to them, while also acknowledging the enormous changes that have occurred within me, around me and through me — made possible by our separation.
It’s almost as if I tried on my past persona like that go-to comfortable shirt. You know the one you search for when you need to feel some consistency. Yet, as I pulled it over my head, I realized it no longer fit. The tag was scratchy, the neck was stretched out…
