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We all have different pieces of ourselves. There’s the You from elementary school, the You you created for yourself in middle school, the You you became through high school, the You you want to become, the You you wish you’d been in this situation or that. There are many pieces of You, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t You.

You can walk to the ocean and scoop up a thimble full of water and say you have the sea. Do you have the sea? Of course. You may not have ALL of the sea, but that doesn’t mean the water you do have isn’t real water, isn’t real ocean. Just because you only have pieces of You doesn’t mean they aren’t you, and it doesn’t mean you won’t someday be able to throw yourself into a whole ocean of You. You’ve only to keep trying, keep thinking bigger, broader, deeper.