let it go

An age-old symbol of healing and transformation, the snake sheds its outgrown skin. It does not stay to beat up the skin it shed, nor to excoriate those still abiding in such skins. At first it may pride itself in its new raiment. Then it realizes that must be shed too. And so goes our onward transformation, neither casting aspersion on what we left, nor captured in adoration of what we are and what we will become.