that was me, but people change

I never believed the saying that it is a small world. Well not until I stepped into the doors of the academic institution that I am currently attending. It is in this organization that I met once again people from my past that I wished I remained in contact with, and I really appreciate those moments. And with that goes the opposite. Sometimes there are things that you want to run away from, people you do not want to see, events that you do not want to remember. But sometimes, the hardest things to forget and the hardest to avoid are those that you keep on seeing, those that you keep on remembering.

I guess the chance to start fresh and leave everything behind comes once in a lifetime, and even that you still cannot completely run away. Everywhere you go, a part of that past goes with you. You cannot get rid of it because it is a part of you. The person you are now is a product of that past, no matter how good or horrible it is.

What I learned from all these is that you cannot run away from anything. The world is small enough for you to meet, once again, people that will remind you of the skeleton that is hiding in that closet. And if you do manage to run away from everyone, you cannot run away from yourself. The only thing that you can do is to change who you are to who you want to be, learn to accept the past and embrace the present, and look forward to the future. And if one day the dreaded skeleton comes to haunt you again...just smile and say: "that was me, but people change".