There's something in your life you can't fix. The relationship that came apart in a way you never wanted. The goodbye you didn't get to choose.

You've turned it over a hundred ways — replayed it, rehearsed it, lain awake bargaining with it. And it hasn't moved. Some things don't. The outcome was never yours to hold.

That's the hard part, isn't it? Not the thing itself — the gripping. The belief that if you just worry hard enough, carry it long enough, you can force it to come out right.

You can't. And there's a strange relief on the other side of admitting that. Letting go isn't giving up. It's setting down what was never yours to carry.

Lay it down here, just for today. You can pick it back up after. You probably won't want to.

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