Memories

I just stumbled across this old photo of me at age 16(check out where I am). Although it was only 9 years ago, it seems as ancient as the megaliths behind me. How many lifes can one live in one physical incarnation? The number of lifes I've lived between then and now, the amount of growth I've undergone, the numerous different "phases" of my life, simply boggles my mind. The location of the photo is really perfect, because at the time I was Wiccan. Between then and now, I've been a Buddhist, a Taoist, an agnostic, a pantheist, a gnostic, and now this wierd amalgamation of religions which I can only broadly describe as "occultist" or "esotericist." I've been through several different jobs, relationships, and friendships. I've seen the highest highs and the lowest lows of my life. I've graduated high school and college, and moved to a new state. Even the person I was a year ago seems so different. The person in the picture feels so unimaginably distant. And yet there I am, throughout the whole process. But who am I? Who is the actor playing all these different roles? What thread connects all these moments into one continuous life I call my own?