Mirror, Mirror

[qos]

How does it look from your side of the screen?

Have I been changing a lot this past month or so. . . . or am I the same person I've always been, emerging from a long journey in the shadowlands?

Or is it some degree of both?

Can you live in the underworld for a year and a half and not be changed by both living there and the struggle to ascend again afterward?

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The Underworld

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Walking through darkness is always going to change those who survive the journey. Something always falls away to make room for the new. It is a transition, and while your core self remains, there are layers of what it is that makes you who you are that have been lost, while others have been added.

I leave you with this, one of my favorite quotes from Children of Dune:

We're about to go through the crucible, but we'll come out the other side. We always arise from our own ashes. Everything returns later in its... changed form.

You have gone through your crucible and are just re-emerging into light to take a glimpse at the new form you have taken.