You are not the you of back then, but you are and always will be you. Change is inevitable... this kind of change just tend to be swifter and less smooth than what is natural.

[Moving forward is hard. Sometimes all you want is to go back, back to when things were not so painful and complicated... but you can't.]

You need to look into yourself and find the parts that still fit somewhat, and start building from there. It wont ever be the same again, but... one day you'll look upon yourself and feel like you can see something of that boy you were once again. It will hurt a bit, but it will be the kind of hurt that does not feel all bad. Like waking up and finding you have left childhood behind, almost...

[But it was a long and hard road to reach that point.]