There’s a fear surrounding starting over, but you’re never really starting over, not completely.

I can, I think, speak confidently on your behalf, dear reader, and say you’re less of an asshole than you were five years ago, and a half decade of getting your ass kicked by life’s made you a veritable walking Buddha, or at least marginally tolerable company.

We take ourselves with us wherever we go, in all the best ways. We’ve all leveled up. We should give ourselves credit.

It’s never too late to grow into the person we’re meant to be.