Somebody that I used to know

Yesterday I was that, today I am this.  What, exactly, is ‘this’?  And why can’t I be ‘that’ anymore?

If I even wanted to be that.  Come to think of it, what was that, anyway?

Tags, identifiers, labels. We are what we are until we are no longer that any more.  And then what?

We sink (back) into just being us?  Our true selves.  Our default selves.

Which begs the question – what were we all that time in between?

And why did it take so long for the path to meander its way back here?  Back home.

How long were we gone?  Where did we go along the way?  What did we see, learn, feel, think…become?