Gifts from the past
If there’s one thing I feel grateful to my younger self for right now, it would be the fact that she’s allowed herself to sit with and process her feelings through certain events that once hurt her – despite the discomfort I’m sure it brought.
Because when the same events hurt me again today in a slightly different context, I could tell that the pain was a lot less intense. For she also made sure to leave me traces of how to deal with them through all what they taught her.
And it made me realize how addressing the things that are distressing me today, might in fact be the best gift I’d possibly offer my future self one day.
