Reflection provides necessary growth

some sympathy for her.

She knew nothing about what I know now.

She did not know how to dress herself. She did not know a lot of things that I know now.

She did not understand how to take care of herself. She kept herself clean, but she did the bare minimum. For that, I do not forgive her. How stupid can you be?

that all younger people are guilty of, and I am, probably, naive now. However, I can forgive her for not knowing a lot of things that I know now.

I want to apologize to her for that.

My senior self hates my freshman self.

If I saw my freshman self now, I would bully her and tell her to get herself together; however, I have

She did not even know how to study and turn in assignments on time. I hate the feeling of needing to apologize to my past teachers for being irresponsible.

I do not forgive her for that.

However, I have a few things for which I can forgive her: being naive. Being naive is something

I also want to apologize for not being nicer to myself. I was cruel and critical. While everyone is their own worst critic, I feel as though I was the only one who was as harsh as I was to myself. Most of the things that I had a problem with, however, were an easy fix.

I am not sure what happened, but one day, I decided to fix all of those problems I had, and I thank myself for that.

To my freshman self: we ended up alright.