How am i not myself?

We are all aware that we grow and change throughout the years. But have you ever really sat down and thought about how much you've actually changed, as a person, over the course of the past six months? two years? ten years?

My good friiend Tallus has been sober for about 10 months now, after having drinking as a regular pasttime and this got me thinking the other day. I'll bet that the Tallus that i know, the sober one, is a world different from the Tallus that everyone else knew.

This made me realize that i've never sat down and really taken stock of how much i myself, have changed. And i don't mean trying to decide if you've lived a good, moral life. If you're falling into the wrong crowd. I just mean looking at yourself, from an outside perspective, and seeing if you recognize the person that is looking back at you.

Do you see the same person that you did last time you checked? Or have you, over time, become unrecognizable to even yourself. If so, perhaps you're paying too much attention to the things that clutter your life, and not enough time memorizing the face looking back at you. If we don't know ourselves, how can we ever even hope to dicipher another?

Maybe we all should spend a little less time at the bottom of a bottle, and more time outside in the sunshine, where all aspects of ourselves can have light shed on them.

Take some time to discover you today. I promise you'll be surprised.

Song of the moment: Moon Pulls by Mum

This photo was taken from deviantart.com. It was posted by ~Dwor-kin and is entitled "morning walking".