Cancer

The version of yourself you have outgrown is not a mistake you made but a form you needed at the time. You can see this now in the way certain old reactions feel too small, the way you reach for responses that used to fit and find them sitting awkwardly in your hands. There is something almost motherly in how you look back at who you were, not with judgment but with the kind of care you would offer someone learning to walk. The growth happened not by rejecting what came before but by making room for what wanted to come next.