http://www.letterneversent.com/i-walk-a-tightrope/1509/ Tell me when to go. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.letterneversent.com/i-walk-a-tightrope/1509/comment-page-1/#comment-2656 chris Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:54:51 +0000 http://www.letterneversent.com/index.php/archives/2004/12/15/i-walk-a-tightrope/#comment-2656 I think you hit the nail on the head. I think you definitely need to face and accept the truth about the past before you can evolve from it. I think you hit the nail on the head. I think you definitely need to face and accept the truth about the past before you can evolve from it.

]]> http://www.letterneversent.com/i-walk-a-tightrope/1509/comment-page-1/#comment-2636 susan Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:09:36 +0000 http://www.letterneversent.com/index.php/archives/2004/12/15/i-walk-a-tightrope/#comment-2636 There's another option, besides either tossing old selves away or ignoring them--looking straight at them, strip away the trappings to get to the important stuff, and try to integrate them and/or just make sense of them as part of the story-of-your-life you are carrying around with you. If you can't look back at the old yous and accept them, how can you be sure, when you think you are becoming a better person, that you aren't just running away from yourself to another temporary place? Sorry if that is a bit blunt but it is a feeling I have had myself sometimes. There’s another option, besides either tossing old selves away or ignoring them–looking straight at them, strip away the trappings to get to the important stuff, and try to integrate them and/or just make sense of them as part of the story-of-your-life you are carrying around with you. If you can’t look back at the old yous and accept them, how can you be sure, when you think you are becoming a better person, that you aren’t just running away from yourself to another temporary place? Sorry if that is a bit blunt but it is a feeling I have had myself sometimes.

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