It's been a long time since I've been on here, and in all honesty I wanted to forget a lot of my past that's been displayed here for a long time. Lots of things about me have changed, I'm in a much better place than I was in some regards - and in others I have stayed right where I started. I spent a lot of today deleting things that I am no longer at peace with or that I feel I'm ok moving on from. Other things I kept for the sake of remembering where I started, even if they aren't perfect by any means. Looking back I can see that a lot of issues that I have today first appeared in my youth. Some of the things I said were not great, but that's to be expected. No one is perfect - especially not when they're kids. I hope I removed everything that I wanted to (some of which had very good reasoning behind it), but if I missed something I'm sure I'll find it eventually. I just want, above all else, for an understanding to be reached that I have changed - and that some of the things in my