Me, forgive me
All of the versions of me are real to me, right now, past me, now me, future me. When I think of "me", I am thinking of who I was, who I am and who I will be, simultaneously. They all make up, "me". I think of myself somehow as both within and outside of time. There is a sense of a timelessness of my existence. Whether that is real or not, is a separate question. But the conception of myself as a being who is continuous across time is linked to enlightenment starting with seeing how all things are connected, starting first with time. Contemplating myself across time, and simultaneously right now, and gone, and to come means I have to be kind to myself, and I have to forgive myself. There is pain I am feeling right now, but because I am both me now, and me to come and me who has gone, I have to forgive myself for the decisions I feel I made that led to the pain I am feeling right now. In holding something against my past self, I am separating parts of my being, when in fact, I am all time points of me at the same time. And so I must forgive, forgive myself. I must be kind, kind to myself. I must love, love myself.