“I learned to stay true to myself by watching myself die” is kinda a hard ass line that I actually really relate to. Like yeah, personally my months-long near death experience in my late teens encouraged me not to hide myself so much and to be more honest and open about my thoughts and feelings. When I first found my cancer at age 18 I was immediately horrified that I would soon die and the last few years of my life would have been spent busting my ass for a future that in that moment I genuinely feared I wasn’t going to get and I never would have gotten the chance to fully bloom. By watching my body slowly fall apart and become harder to look at as it got more and more life saving poison pumped into it, I realized that the weird beautiful flawed person underneath needed to come out and needed to stop hiding. After I recovered, I really started to live the best life that I could. That quote is honestly a beautiful wonderful group of simple words woven together really effectively.
That quote is from a sorta forgettable Steven Universe season 1 episode in a song about Steven literally watching copies of himself die after he exploited a goofy little time travel device to make a boy band with himself.
