Shekhar Natarajan

That's a good question.

So you're looking at your mirror.

That's the 25 and the 225.

The 225 just became the 25.

The 25 is completely changed.

Every cell is changed.

It's not just about this kind of building block of its subjective experience that we carry, the relationships that we have.

into being, one can't exist as a separate self.

was doing her fucking best, she was doing a great job, but it's different to who I am now, and hopefully I'm different to who I'll be when I'm, if I get to be 90 or whatever.

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.