But if there is no essence, how can we say that at 5 or 12 years it was you? If there is nothing left of that, and you are completely a different person, how can we say that it is you?

Look for what connects the points of those periods until today, what has remained untouchable is not the personality or the way of acting, it is not the ego, which is only a personal image that we have of ourselves, it's a "I don't know what" that we have, and that gives itself away every time we do something, it's like the way of being.

Weird, what they told me was "you never change." I guess you can contradict me. :)