When you know who you are becoming, it is a lot easier to make peace with who you’ve been. It’s a lot easier to dissect the past for the lessons you needed to learn, and then let the rest go. The experiences that delivered you those essential pieces of knowledge—no matter how uncomfortable they were at the onset—were not useless. They were not wasted. Your pain was not for nothing, your hurt was not meaningless. You completed the most daring task of all, which is to look into the recesses of your own fear and find hope, find meaning, and find a greater truth.
