Yeah, of course! Maybe it's not the same for humans, but I was really little when I'm born, and now I'm much bigger. So it makes sense that you're different than you used to be. I dunno if I'd go back either, but it wasn't... bad.

[if you can only be the kind of person you want to be if you're going to die, that seems... wrong to him, somehow. it's not a concept he can really articulate right now, but there's no way Madoka before she made her deal somehow deserved to die rather than continue existing as herself.]