I’m the Same Person I’ve Always Been
I’m still the same me, but I’m relating to you differently.
It often seems like people don’t quite understand how I can say that I am the same person I’ve always been while also talking about growth and change. I admit it does sound contradictory on the surface.
But, the thing is, I am the exact same person at my core. Growth is change — transformation, even — but a rose is still a rose from bud to full bloom.
Not only am I growing — hopefully becoming wiser with age and experience — but I am also doing a great deal of inner work. I am healing.
Who I am has not suddenly changed. What’s changed is how I am able to exist in and interact with the world — how I relate to others — as the person I am.
My mental health struggles were not new when I began sharing candidly about anxiety and depression, years ago, what was new was my willingness to be seen as struggling.
My childhood was what it was, what’s changed is that I am just now starting to be able to talk openly about it.
My bisexuality is not new, what’s new is my intentionality in being visible as bi.
When someone makes something publicly known, so often people say, “All of a sudden..,” as if the moment of speaking…
