Forgiving yourself is a true gift There’s a point in life where you look back at the younger version of yourself — the one who didn’t have the experience, the maturity, or the emotional vocabulary to handle the things that came your way — and you finally understand you weren’t weak. You were unprepared. You were doing the best you could with the tools you had at the time. And sometimes those tools were blunt, broken, or borrowed from people who didn’t know any better either.