Born Today?

The small irritations you have been carrying often start as reasonable responses to unreasonable situations, but somewhere along the way they stop being about the situation and start being about the carrying itself. You keep them close because they feel like proof of something important, evidence that you were right to notice what others missed or chose to ignore. But the thing about holding onto being right is that it requires you to keep the original wrong alive in your daily thoughts, turning a single moment into a recurring visitor that asks for your attention every time it arrives. The year ahead asks whether what you thought you were protecting by remembering is actually what you have been giving away by not forgetting. Some things cost more to keep than they ever cost to lose.