Shekhar Natarajan

And I think there's something about that kind of, hopefully self-compassion for one's younger iteration or being, but then all of the people that you have been and become, it's almost like, you know, the river is never the same river twice.

But the song is always evolving.

And if you're lucky, you remember the song that you played when you're 25 with fondness.

But it changes.

It's not a static.

calcified thing.

And I think this touches on something that all of us have already touched on, which is this joy and this openness and the vitality.

It's that capacity to kind of be in that song or be in that river, knowing that it's not the same and it's not going to be the same and it's different to how it was and still live with it and flow through it.

Something like this.

Yeah.

It's like the paradox of like feeling a continuity.

even as you watch everything change.

But that felt sense of continuity, because you could argue that the past has been like, it's dead.

You look at an old photo, it's like, what is that?

Who is that?

I'm that?

Well, not really.

Every cell has turned over.

This gets back into just this sort of felt mystery of what it is to be us.

But what I do know is