It takes a special kind of self-sabotage to keep worshipping your own history. Not loyalty. Not "being real." Self-sabotage. Because "I've always been this way" isn't identity, it's a comfort ritual. A pattern you keep feeding because it saves you from the risk of becoming unfamiliar to yourself. Your past isn't a prophecy. It's a folder of old decisions. And the only reason it keeps winning is because you keep handing it the microphone. You keep letting yesterday negotiate today. You keep confusing repetition with truth. But you can change. Not someday. Not after you heal more, learn more or wait more. Now. In the moment you decide the pattern doesn't get to speak for you anymore. Because the future doesn't follow the past. It follows permission. And the second you stop giving your past permission to define you, you become new. Not in theory. In practice. In action. In choice.