"There’s safety in the past — I know what happened, how silly my worries were at the time, and some of my most favorite people exist only there. Realizing that those people and places no longer exist as they do in my memory is one of life’s biggest disappointments. Even if I could recreate the past, nothing would be the same. People change, people die, places change, and — most mystifying of all, I have changed and become an entirely different person than I was even a year ago.
The past is a security blanket I cling to when the present isn't going well and the future seems too fuzzy."
