I’ve been thinking of this in the context of old social media accounts. I have an old centralized account that I don’t post on anymore. But it’s there, and I sometimes scroll through it. And I think about deleting it, but I worry about losing those “connections”.

But many of those relationships represent an old era of my life, with old goals, old dreams.

In many cases, I have mourned those dreams, but the ghosts of them linger in every scroll of that old friend group.

I think to truly grow into the new, I need to delete it. There’s a few people I’d keep in touch with, but there’s no need to see those faces anymore. To relive that era indefinitely would only stifle me.