When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.
I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.
I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.