feel the need to forgive yourself for one
of the people that you never became, there are an equal number
of reasons you ought to thank yourself for exactly who you did
become. For all that you know, maybe you ended up the absolute
best possible version of yourself. Maybe at every fork in the
road that you faced, you ended up choosing the best of all
possible roads. Maybe this isn’t the life that you hoped
for but it’s the most meaningful one you could possibly
have ended up with. And maybe the ideas we still harbor about
who we wish we’d become in other lifetimes just serve to
point us toward where we ought to go next in this one. Because
the future is nothing if not a series of alternate universes
that we still have the power to choose from. And there are
infinite versions of ourselves that we can still choose to
become.
