The change was first noticed when I wanted to stop writing rambles of consideration and begin crafting tales of perspective. From there the idea took on a life of its own. It was the culmination of everything that happened to that point that led me to begin digging a hole for the character of my old persona.
The new, of course, needed as much purpose as the last, but purpose doesn’t always align with impact. the original persona was designed to entertain, and be entertained, to embody my digital extroversion. The new is one is to think and tell. To straddle the inner bard. Perhaps to have a single moment of clarity borne of my own unique outlook would be a successful existence for it. Perhaps it doesn’t matter so long as the road is ahead, not behind.
One rarely has a reason to kill the darling of their own created self in an effort to gain separation from its failed steps on a road which only ever led to dissatisfaction. The future is more clear and it promises less performance and more poetry, of all things.