Crackerjacks;

I used to believe that life is about finding yourself. 
But now I am finally realizing that your life is about defining yourself, building off of everything you were, innovating with everything that you are and imagining everything that you can be. We are the most complex beings on the planet because our souls are comprised of so many different experiences, lifetimes and friendships. We learn and grow from the people we surround ourselves with and the situations we are placed in, meticulously adding each puzzle piece to our entire masterpiece. You are everything you have been through, are currently going through and will eventually deal with. And while you may feel as though you are changing, it is not you as a person who is necessarily changing, adopting a new form and presenting it to the world as your 'new-self;' it is your atmosphere and subsequently how you adapt to it at that point in your life that is evolving; it is your bond with others around you and how you relate to them in those particular moments that is growing and becoming more intimate; it is your mind expanding as you are experiencing and learning from every seemingly mundane or minute detail about the world around you. You can't change, but you can reevaluate and build off of the person you thought you left behind. But you should never leave pieces of yourself behind. You must embrace your embarrassing past and utilize your forgotten heartache or happiness to create beauty in the world, to show other people they are not the only ones who have felt those feelings and wanted to leave them behind. Your puzzle can't be completed without all of the pieces, and isn't that what you have desired all along? To feel complete?