Long ago I used to hear people say that they wouldn't change a thing about the past, because it made them who they are.
I used to take a rather contrary stance on that. I believed that there are many routes to get to where one is, and that through the minefield isn't a route to appreciate.
I think I get it now though.
I think that we are the sum of our experiences. I am what I am today--and I say this believing that I'm in my best emotional state ever--specifically because of some of what I experienced. I could not have this perspective, this openness, this capacity to understand, this willingness to forgive myself and to let love in, without all that came before.
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I agree that it's our past experiences that make us who we are. But that doesn't we've sat passively and let the world shape us. I think it's how we react to and interpret those experiences that really form us. We wouldn't be who we are now without the past, but creating ourselves is still an act of will (even if that act is to sit back and let it all happen to you).
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