Only the insecure strive for security.
If you are what you do, then when you don't, you aren't.
When you grow up believing you are what you do, when you're done, you aren't.
Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.
When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift.
If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.