“Allow me to reintroduce myself...”

Change can be easy to miss because it happens so gradually.

A Netflix promo for Young Sheldon caught me off guard the other day. My boys have been begging to watch "one more episode of Sheldon" before bed lately. I think we’re most of the way through season four.

So when a clip from S1 started playing, Sheldon looked like such a baby. I got that same feeling in my gut that I get when looking at old photos of my kids.

For whatever reason, it made me think about the current version of me that people in my past will never meet.

If they think of me at all, they're thinking of middle school basketball Jimmy, or college prankster Jimmy, or whatever socially awkward version of me they happened to cross paths with. The socially awkward part is probably the most consistent thread. 🤪

I'm still me. But I'm different than I was back then,
whenever “then” happened to be.
And hopefully I've grown a little bit along the way.

I do the same thing to other people...
Holding onto a version of them that doesn't exist anymore.

Some people never grow or change.
But most people do.
My perception doesn't always keep up.

So the next time I see you, I’d love if you rapped some Jay-Z to me…
“Allow me to reintroduce myself...”