Having trouble parsing out 「私は今までの私ではない」


I've been struggling with the possessive and the statement of existence in the
following phrase:

> 私は今までの私ではない

The easy part is "I am until now"...but then I get stuck on 「の私ではない」. By
itself, I understand「ではない」to mean "am not," but then「の私」throws me: "of me"?

How off-base is the following interpretation?

> I haven't been myself until now




## Parse

**私は** - I

**今までの私** - The person I used to be (until now/just recently)

**ではない** - am not

## **Roughly translated**

> I am not the person I used to be.

## Side note

For parsing sentences, a useful tool is putting a comma after particles like は
and seeing how the ideas organize out.




## Parse

**私は** - I

**今までの私** - The person I used to be (until now/just recently)

**ではない** - am not

## **Roughly translated**

> I am not the person I used to be.

## Side note

For parsing sentences, a useful tool is putting a comma after particles like は
and seeing how the ideas organize out.

