IT'S EASIER SAID THAN DONE

When you've been running for so long and find yourself at a full stop, does your life start to look differently? Is that when you can live it and observe it simultaneously? What comes next? Who do you become and how can you reckon with the person you were?
How can you both stop to make meaning of it but discard the pieces that don't serve you without stripping you of who you were? Who you are. Is it merely naive to think you can?