It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
— Lewis Carroll
Do you think of yourself as a different person than you were when you were younger? Than you were a few years ago? Would you go back to that previous you? Are there some changes you wouldn’t be willing to give up?
March 23, 2021
I think my life more in terms are chapters building a story. I wouldn’t necessarily go back to any of the other chapters to relive them because I am different. But I don’t wanna forget them either because there were important Parts of the hall.
Yes, don’t disown them, but appreciate the story.
I don’t know if I’ve changed over the years, I think of it more as growing. I’ve learned what’s important and don’t sweat the small stuff like I used to.
Yes, challenges are inevitable, and we get more skillful at handling them.
I am totally a different person than I was the first 20 years of my life, introvert and scared of my own shadow.. After I had my two sons at 20 and 22 i changed from introvert to extrovert. and have changed and changed and changed all the way to old age. I would not want to return to any of the before changes, but IF i could I would like to stay the same ME and be 40 again..
Wow! That was young to have kids. I love the present you!!
I love that quote!
No way would I want to revisit my childhood; even my 20’s. Yet, the best years of my life arrived soon after.
Much of it by my own hand, they, too, went away. Because I won’t allow myself the luxury of mourning the past, I’ll keep on keeping on. Hopefully with a smile on my face.
Being cheerful helps a lot. It saves energy for dealing with the inevitable challenges.
Those are good questions. I liked that I didn’t worry so much when I was younger. I’d like that back.
I’m just the opposite…I was a worrier when I was young, now not nearly so much.
I think I am still more or less the same person but hopefully a little wiser and kinder and definitely a lot older:)
🙂
I would like to go back physically to, say, 30 or so. But I WOULD NOT want to give up my VAST store of knowledge that I’ve accumulated in the 50+ years since then. ?
I’m with you!
There are parts of myself I like better back then other than just the health aspect but I would not want to give up.the now just for those.
Things are going all right if we don’t want to give up the now. 🙂
there was a couple of big blips in my lifetime – but as someone else said “if you delete them, you delete the knowledge you gained at that time” – what I learned was to “not make that blip again” – did I? not in such a big format…
at times I’ve wanted to be a child/teen again with a great laidback Dad but then I think about Mother and “no thanks”
My folks had me convinced that being an adult sucked, that childhood would be the happiest time of my life. I’m so glad that turned out to be not true!