I'm not who I was a few years ago. I've grown. I've matured. I've altered the things that are important to me, and I've tweaked my focus. I care about different things than I did. I've learned a lot about trust, about friendship, about people -- about me. I've been hurt, and I've been healed, and I've learned to let go and move on and embrace new things.
But sometimes I still want to hold on to the girl I was then. I want to be new, but I want to be familiar, too. I want to keep things that I lost, even as I'm embracing the things I've gained.
I've learned to let go of a lot of things -- and I'm learning that it's okay to let go of who I was, too. I'm learning that it's okay to change and it's okay to be different. It's okay if I don't always recognize the girl in the mirror and it's okay to take awhile to get to know her.
I'm learning that I like the person I'm becoming, and it's okay to be her. And it's okay to say goodbye to the girl who lived in my skin before.
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