You’ll miss the old you sometimes. Missing something doesn’t mean you should go back to it.

Nostalgia for an earlier version of yourself is not an instruction to reverse course. Missing something means it held real things you valued, which can be entirely true even when leaving was right. Both facts sit together without cancelling each other out. Grief and good decisions are compatible.

When the pull backward arrives, get specific about what exactly you miss. It is usually one element rather than the whole arrangement. See whether that one element can be carried into the life you are in now.