And in order to heal those wounds, you got to stop touching the wound, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with the core of you and who you are. But it takes time. So don't be too hard on yourself. And to be happy, you have to stop comparing yourself to a hypothetical self. Don't drown in a sea of what ifs and don't clutter your mind imagining other versions of you in parallel universes or other versions who made different decisions and the Internet