>>6779802"In the early morning hours on a bench outside a hotel in Anaheim this summer, Ze Frank told me something I am going to paraphrase. I love this metaphor. Stuff in your past is like a carving on the bark of a sapling. Over time, the scar, the carving, won’t go away. Because of the way trees grow, it won’t go up or down much either it will just stay right where it began. It might even get darker. But it won’t get bigger. You, however, can. You can keep growing doing more things, more branches, being more things.The wound won’t get smaller but you can make it a smaller part of who you are. Maybe regrets are like that they stick around forever like arborglyphs or maybe they make like a tree and leaf, a red or purple leaf in the autumn." Michael Stevens (Vsauce)