The older I get the more I understand the complexity that people encompass
The older I get the more I understand how wounded and traumatized people are
The older I get the more I see the baggage and dysfunction that accumulates over time
We either delve deep into healing, or we exist in the contradictory space between a desire to connect and a desire to protect ourselves
Or perhaps we fluctuate between all of it
We cannot continue to function the same ways we always have
We either grow and change or root further into our dysfunction
I would not choose to go back in time
I am grateful for the wisdom that aging brings
I find peace here, in the dissolution of all things that never mattered
And the discovery of what does
