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Who caught who?
It struck her, as she faced the same call to bravery, that her twenty-year old self was holding her now. All of the soul-searching had allowed her to console the young woman that she had been for not knowing how to step forward in that way. Revisiting her made it clear that she had done the best she could to always push further, to reach for the fire. She didn't know that she had read the compass wrong. Following a path was not the same as following her path. She understood now that it had to be that way, because the wisdom wouldn't have come any other way and nothing was actually lost. She was right on time for this moment. Holding her younger self now allowed for a forgiveness that she hadn't known was necessary, but as soon as it was granted everything shifted. Facing her own path for the first time in forty years, it was her younger-self now holding her, guiding her, reminding her of all the things she knew and had simply stored away. Like a little bird cradled in her younger hands, her greatest teacher opened them up and nudged her forward.
