Perhaps no one is ever just one person.
We are made of pieces shaped by different moments in our lives — the people we have been, the things we have lost, the roles we have played, and the versions of ourselves that still remain somewhere inside us.
Some of these pieces belong together. Some don’t. Some we embrace, while others we try to hide. But somehow, all of them become part of who we are.
Maybe the self was never meant to be whole or fixed. Maybe we are simply a collection of pieces that learned how to exist together.