A Conversation With My Younger Self

These may be questions, but they hold the answers within them.

I wouldn’t have learned to appreciate my family and parents as much as I do now without spending considerable amounts of time away from them in the last few years. I wouldn’t have been grateful for my health and well-being without coming face to face with death and accepting our eventual mortality. I wouldn’t have learned how far my mental strength can go without being broke and failing at my startups. I wouldn’t have dreamt a new life without shedding my previous one.

I wouldn’t have built up my value chain:

Honesty.

Kindness.

Justice.

Joy.

Curiosity.

So younger me, if I ever come back on a Time Machine and try to change you, please tell me to f*** off. The pain is well worth it.