Roger ZelaznyI saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.
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The more people grow older, the more of themselves they shed. Often, this means all the good parts of their personality. This is what happens to us all. Some people are lucky enough to outgrow some former selves.
No matter how old we get, there will always be some part of us that we were not even aware existed. Our younger selves are often unseen and unknown to us. Often, our younger selves are the people we became more than our earlier selves.
Source: The Courts Of Chaos
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