[quote=Esper]
Y'all need to accept that you've grown from there instead of speaking of yourself in a privative manner. For you found yourselves lacking and built upon it instead of giving into complacency. Thus is the natural order of life. Adaptation through the evolution of skill and mindset, taking what experience has been gained and forging from it something more durable to better suit your present situation.
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I do accept that but at the same time dwelling on bad memories allows them power over me, here I wasn't so much dwelling as expressing pleasure that the physical evidence of those bad memories is gone which makes it far harder to dwell. I figure that's a pretty big boost to my progress.