Dear self, you probably thought you weren't going to be free in your thoughts and expressive in your journey.

Moving away from hurtful things, thinking it will one day work itself out until you realize it wasn't going to be.

And you had to take steps to walk through it. It wasn't an easy journey.

You lost many parts of yourselves's friends didn't understand.

You didn't understand.

Much was taking place in a tiny world that you didn't know existed.

You had to go back to the basics, start from scratch, and renew your thoughts, and adjust

the way you listened.

You became more aware of sight, tunneling your vision to see your best self,

even in the moments where you were stuck in your worst self, but ensuring that everything

you saw for yourself would be reached by putting in the work. Now that you're here, there is so

much more to learn. You're better than before, but why do you mourn parts of your old self?

You know, mourning parts of our old self is a natural thing.

It is a loss that we didn't know is capable.

All of the things that we have lived through collected and sat with for many years collectively

become parts of what we consider our old self we gained friendships and connections based on our

ideologies and the way we connected perhaps at a lower level and when we began to turn the page

many of us lost those friends and connections because we were no longer adhering to the similarities that once made a great connection by means of that understanding of our old self.

Some of the things that we did, the places that we went to, the things that we allowed become innate in our being, and now outside of it,

we recognize that many of those things didn't serve us best. It's almost like the good and bad in

many instances. When we think back, it seems to be a tie between the good and bad, a leveled

being. But when we look at it, when we examine it, we realize that our new self

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