But what I know to be true from my own life experience is that you will not truly rediscover your “spirit” in the past but will discover it is waiting for you in the future on the path you have now chosen. Your spirit isn’t behind you—it is way ahead of you; it has already made its choice! All that needed to happen was for you to make yours, and you were together again! Pretty metaphysical for a hard-headed guy like me, perhaps, but while I can’t prove it, I know without a shadow of a doubt that it is true.