Hey. We all wish we could be our old selves at one point, and that's okay. It means you have learned that the you right now is something you don't like, and you want to change it. But sometimes, it's too late to change it, and it would mean losing a lot of things you love. It's not a sudden change, it's a change that takes a lot of time. Time that takes years, not days or hours or minutes. It's life that throws you down and picks you back up again that makes you change, not thinking you can change within seconds of wanting to be something.

Sometimes it's just the little things you thought didn't matter before that changed you. And sometimes it's the big things that come clobbering you so suddenly, like being in a car wreck for instance. No matter what, it's always something that changes our mind and body, and that's completely normal.

Just know, that I used to be this little ball of energy for most of my childhood (birth to 11 years old), then I mellowed out so seemingly fast it felt like it all happened overnight, but in reality, it was in a matter of a year. And if I didn't mellow out, I wouldn't be here, comforting you. It's the changes in life that bring us all together.