@NicoNickname

Had a rare nice thought that caught me off-guard.
I was looking through my bookshelf for something to read when I spotted a book I got when I was 18, the summer before starting University (which I never ended up reading :P). I got thinking "damn that was a while back, have I really changed for any better since then? Would my own self those years back be proud of the person I am now?"

And I realized "well actually yes, a lot.". Like just the fact I have friends would have blown the mind of me back then, but that plus all the steps I've taken, that I am living on my own, have a social life, projects I work on, things I do of my own volition, is already a lot of things I've grown in.

It feels a bit silly to say, cause a lot of people have all those things at that age, most people have all that back when I was still seeing any of that as an impossible imagined future, but it is still nice to feel that I have evolved as a person over the years, even if it is hard to feel that at any given moment