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Published: 2011-07-26 00:25:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 203; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 1
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To my eight-year old self,It is hard to call you myself, because the only thing I have from you are the scars of your existence.
What you were and what I am now are so divorced by time and circumstances that we are only connected in a vague evolution of old wounds that will not heal.
You do not know how bad it will get. I know all too well.
And that is the ocean that lies between us, as treacherous as it is dangerous. That is the ocean you will have to cross.
So, my eight-year old self, be prepared to die. Die. Die and die again.
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I believe that we aren't who we were.
The person I was yesterday is not ME. I am an every changing being, leaving behind past selves of mine that have nothing to do with the real me.
What did your eight-year-old you do? Are you giving her a warning or berating her?
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I don't really know. The exercise is to write to yourself at eight, and I realized that it was more like writing to a stranger.
But in answer to your question, it's not more a former than the latter, though I hesitate to call it a warning because I don't think it can be stopped.
"The person I was yesterday is not ME. I am an every changing being, leaving behind past selves of mine that have nothing to do with the real me."
^-- This definitely captures what I was trying to say.
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