# i can be new

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**Published by:** [tinyrainboot](https://paragraph.com/@tinyrainboot/)
**Published on:** 2024-03-28
**Categories:** internet diary
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sometimes a message comes to you through art just when you need it. there's a piece by @hillergoodspeed that's been cemented in my brain since i first saw it a few years ago. it's a simple green wash with a figure laying in what i assume represents a grassy field. i can change, it says. i can be something else i can be different i can be new.artist: @hillergoodspeedsometimes the most simple and obvious truths resonate the most deeply. i was at a very transitory point in my life when this work slid across my feed, and its text became a mantra i would whisper during difficult battles with myself. the work to figure out what kind of person you want to be is a lifelong project, and it takes a good amount of initiative and agency. somehow i had never realized this before: that you can decide who you want to be. that your personality is not hard-coded. ","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Spotify","thumbnail_url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e027fb4d50cc18d640de32585c3","type":"rich","thumbnail_height":300}" format="iframe">https://spotify.comBlueshiftListen to Blueshift on Spotify. All India Radio · Song · 2015.i'm hard on myself, but i am trying. trying to give myself the chance to actively decide what kind of person to be. to let myself be reborn any time i need it. to give myself the grace to know i don't have to be fixed in my ways. the world is as flexible as we are, and we can change whenever we want. yes, i can be different. i can be new.

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