Begin at the beginning and go on 'til you come to the end: then stop.

Because I want you to know me I offer you this:

1. I am a little bit messed up

2. Sometimes I fly off the handle. I crack, I break, I flounder.

3. In these moments I will turn to you and ask you to fix me.

4. What I really want is for you to let the destruction play out before your eyes.

5. After the destruction there will always be a moment of reconstruction.

6. In these reconstructions I improve myself. I change things, I throw parts of me away, I find a new definition of who I am.

7. Sometimes these reconstructions don't take. I miss the parts I've discarded, I don't like the things I've added. I revert.

8. These reversions are not always for the worst. Sometimes I did get rid of the wrong bits.

9. I am a work in progress.

10. And you need to accept that progress takes time. We do not change overnight. But we do change.

So learn how to love me. Love me how I was, how I am, and how I'm going to be. We don't know this new Dormouse and the old one will never really go away. But the cracks are starting to show again so a new Dormouse is on the way whether you're ready for her or not. First comes the slow burn then comes the slow rebuild.

-The Dormouse