You can learn a lot from your younger self. Especially when that self said or did something that, even if relatively unremarkable at the time, seems presciently potent years later.
The result of excessive hubris and self-focus, many of my life’s insights or actions would benefit from a healthy dose of amnesia. A fair share are in need of actual forgiveness. One particular contribution to the human enterprise, however, an essay filed away in a stack of old journals, re-presented itself to me today as a possible framework for refinding my footing in the modern era: a declaration of interdependence.
