It is important to keep a picture of yourself taken at a time when you were your own true unspoilt, undiluted self, just to remind you of who you were. Life causes lots of changes to happen, depending on whether the experiences were positive or negative (putting it broadly). It could be that you were living someone else's dream or someone else's life, because you were not sure about your own, and you had not the time/means/energy to see where you were going, or, maybe you believed that that was the right path, and suppressed all feelings that popped up telling you that it was not...
All these leave films over the real you, till one day something happens to bring you up short and you find yourself staring at the question: Is this what I've become?
So whether you have a few years left of life, or many, it would be time now to do something about getting yourself back, enriched no doubt, but recognizably, and distinctly you...