I'm old enough that when I go back to my older blogs on LiveJournal, where I started writing in 2012, I don't see growth. Partly that's because 10 years ago I was 40; old enough that I'd already gone through the curve of adult maturation. Glances back at the past from 10 or 15 years ago show how I'm the same... and that if anything's changed, younger me has become a slower and less imaginative version of myself. 😔