I have noticed that my life circumstances reliably change, every five years, in ways I could never have predicted. A bias toward seeking change is certainly a f

I have noticed that my life circumstances reliably change, every five years, in ways I could never have predicted. A bias toward seeking change is certainly a factor. But I still recognize very strong continuity in interests, values and ways of thinking from when I was just two years old. There are themes in me that are ridiculously stable. At two I had a really strong sense of myself. And while the things most important to me have adapted, they have done so in a sense of upping my game in a broader world. They are more consistent with my tiny self, than if I had just kept my views & values despite awareness of other horizons. But I am also deeper in ways that my early self didn’t portend at all. Almost always as a result of going through hard times. Almost all those changes, despite the pain they cost, are very welcome. In that way, I have certainly changed, or taken branches, that were entirely independent of my early self. Enough that presumably, there are many superpositions of me, that have gone through different experiences, and are now quite different from this version of me.