And I was speaking to this gentleman friend of mine that when I told him that I missed that version of myself, and I was explaining to him why and how I knew her and I had fallen in love with her, and I wasn't ready to let her go. But then I also realized that at some point, you have to come to terms with it. You have to allow yourself to grieve over the lost person or the previous person that you were before
I don't want to assume or put any words in your mouth, of course, but it sounds to me like you are definitely living from a place of acceptance in some ways. So, way to go. That's huge. A lot of people struggle with that, and I don't blame them. It's hard to accept change that we don't even ask for. Right? But there's beauty in that, too