“I struggle with myself, with the meaning to put into it all, with my desire to give and to hold, to keep and to lose, to live and to die. I want to remember all the time why I should want to live. I am all pain and no memory. Inside of my body there are fires, there are bruises, the flesh is in pain.”
Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry wr. c. August 1937, featured in “Diaries,”
You can always start again. Clean out your social media. Create a new account for your new taste in music. Study or work in a new city. Start socialising with new people. Choose a new signature scent and style and purge the outdated parts of yourself. If you don’t like where you’re at, but you don’t know what to do about it - try starting again.