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🔄 Backtracking or Becoming?

May 26, 2025 at 11:20 pm
Aisopose

I’ve been accused of backtracking more times than I can count.
“You said one thing then changed your mind.”
“You’re just trying to cover your tracks.”
“You’re making excuses.”

But here’s the truth: people change.
We grow. We stumble. We learn.
To some, that looks like inconsistency. To me, that’s evolution.


🧠 The Mind Isn’t Always a Microphone

If thoughts could be instantly transferred from my head into yours—uncut, unfiltered—you’d understand what I meant the first time. You’d see the nuance, the emotion, the intention. But that’s not how life—or the internet—works.

Instead, we use language, posts, and tone-deaf pixels to try and express something that’s often still forming within us. And yes, sometimes it comes out wrong. Sometimes I revise, not to hide, but to clarify.


🧍‍♂️ Mistakes Aren’t Monsters

I’ve said things I regret.
I’ve posted takes that didn’t age well.
But you know what? I’m not going to hide them.

Not anymore.

Because pretending they didn’t happen only robs me of growth. Those old posts, those messy thoughts—they’re the breadcrumbs of transformation. They remind me who I was and how far I’ve come.


đź—˝ Erasing the Past Is the Real Error

We see it in culture too.
A desire to scrub history clean—
To tear down monuments…
To strike names from books…
To “cancel” people for things they said or did decades ago.

Yes, we need accountability.
But too many people who preach accountability forget its counterpart: forgiveness.
They forget that the whole point of pointing out a mistake is so it can be learned from, not buried under shame.


🌱 Foggy Lenses Still Teach

Every post I leave up, every flawed opinion I once held—it’s part of a larger story: a human story. Not perfect, but progressing. Just because the lens was foggy once doesn’t mean I haven’t cleaned it. Doesn’t mean the view now is invalid.

I’m not backtracking.
I’m becoming.
And I’m bringing every version of me along for the ride.