your relationship with yourself cannot be built entirely around improvement. at some point, you have to become someone you are allowed to enjoy being. you get to be proud of who you are. present tense
btw shit like this is why swara bhaskar was right lol ppl fucking love this scene they dont feel horror at all it’s an almost masturbatory pleasure for them to watch all these women run into the fire remain “pure”, & that sensibility obv carries into their present interactions