> It’s almost like the shock of the event kills your previous self. This is a very profound statement and I think I may take it a bit further in a "ship of the

> It’s almost like the shock of the event kills your previous self. This is a very profound statement and I think I may take it a bit further in a "ship of theseus" narrative: Perhaps we all are literally different people from year to year, month to month, week to week, and we just happen to remember our former selves enough to keep the ship intact? What if the trauma simply shocked us into forgetting or wanting to forget our recent past selves?