Pisces

The version of yourself that you outgrew still deserves something gentler than dismissal. You carry it forward not because you need to become it again, but because it was trying to solve problems with the tools it had then. The impulse to be embarrassed by who you were last year, or five years ago, misses how much that person was willing to risk to get you here. What looks like softness toward your former self is actually a recognition that growth doesn't require burning the bridge behind you. Some of what you were then was already pointing toward what you needed to become.