There is an aspect to reflecting on your life that is easy to overlook. The lived experience is one reality and the experience as it is reflected upon is altered from that original. It may be slightly or it may be a considerable distortion. Either way it is not the original. The passage of time moves the experience and the way the memory works layers this again. Written diaries witness this, going back into them years later they contain a record that is different from the one held in the mind that can be reflected on repetitively. The clarity of the living experience is reduced on reflection although other insights and awarenesses can be developed in the act of reflecting. It is a shift in perspective.
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