To Recreate

From another old Laurell blog entry:

Recreation means to re-create yourself.

I'd never thought of it that way.  Next time, I'm recreating, I'll think about how, if at all, it's re-creating me.  How am I changing?  How am I growing?

What are your thoughts? Do you see a connection between recreation and re-create?  (I, like Laurell, hyphenate the word to differentiate between the act of creating again and having fun.)