The Selves We Outgrow Without Noticing

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Sometimes we don’t outgrow people through conflict or distance. The change happens quietly—almost without noticing—until we realize we’re no longer borrowing our sense of self from the room we’re in. I explore that moment of subtle shift more fully in this reflection, originally published on my Substack, What Matters.
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This quiet sense of change echoes themes I explored more fully in Why Life Stories Change, where identity evolves not through events alone, but through how we reinterpret our past.