Hello! You could only ever be a me that looks back - neck turned, eyes reaching out for connection. I see you, and I see you - Thank you, and sorry. I know you're sorry for not writing. I'm sorry too, now. I guess I... time healed me. And I didn't need to write this stream of consciousness stuff any more. I look back at these posts now in 2026, and I find such pride in my writing. Not just because I wrote all of it before LLMs went public, but because I was so brave to put things down. Creative Courage - I tell this to my students all the time. And i practiced it, when i was you When I was you :) Or rather, when you read this - when you were me -- I am now at PROLOGUE, a coffee shop that the wife likes at Millenia Walk. Oh > I am married. But of course you already know that. The act of writing is a strange one isn't it? I am trying to write to a past self that will never see or read this, for a future self that I only hope might Staccat...