“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” - Oscar Wilde In my experience, it has never been easy to leave a path you have chosen – I am yet to meet a mentally stable and socially acceptable individual who would beg to differ. This feat is far from impossible, I admit, bit it is extremely difficult to accomplish.
And I am certain you will agree that it is not only the effort to change who you are – your habits, idiosyncrasies, perceptions, etc. – that’s so bloody hard. There is something else that hinders you at every step of your transition: baggage.
And I am certain you will agree that it is not only the effort to change who you are – your habits, idiosyncrasies, perceptions, etc. – that’s so bloody hard. There is something else that hinders you at every step of your transition: baggage.
Now, obviously, I’m not referring to the sort of baggage one might take along on the train/plane/bus for a quick holiday escape. No... I am, in fact, talking about what modern society has dubbed the generally recognised euphemism for the loads of unpleasant moments in the history of, well, basically every person who has left his or her teen-age years behind.
You always have trouble trusting another person because you were betrayed in the past? Then you have baggage – and a lot of it. You have a different set of ideas about what relationships ought to be like? Baggage. You don’t want to accept each and every single thing you don’t like? Baggage!
I'm fairly sure that I know now what the most ironic aspect of making any significant change to the person you are truly is... No one ever stops reminding you who you used to be – people will always hold a mirror for you, lest you forget any mistake you’ve made.
I don’t really know why. Although I do have my suspicions. If I had to guess... Maybe they are not aware that I already have a mirror.
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