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Life is like a blended drink. In the beginning there are all of these different ingredients that make up your life.

Everything is added to the blender then with the push of a button the powerful blades are turned on and your life is one big swirling mess of your former self.

All of you is still there; everything that comprised you has just been broken down and mixed together.

Don’t get me wrong, you won’t ever be able to go back to the way you were, but something new and more desirable has been created.

So when life crushes you remember what was, but also know that this new version of you is still you just in a different form.

— Nicole Barden 5/21/2021

Originally published in Illumination on Medium