DAY 57 OF 365 As you get older, you begin to know yourself in ways you never could before. You meet the parts of you that were only ever waiting to be loved, and this time, you don't turn away. You stay. You look at your younger self with compassion instead of criticism, seeing someone who was trying, who was learning, who deserved more than they were given. You close the doors that once dimmed your light and open the ones that let it shine. You grow gentle with your past and, at last, find peace in the story you once lived and wished you could change.