Born Today?

Some of what you carry was never meant to be yours to hold, but it landed in your hands anyway through the simple fact of being born into a particular family at a particular moment. The hurt someone else could not process became the mood that filled your childhood rooms. The dream someone else could not reach became the expectation that followed you into adulthood. The fear someone else could not name became the caution you learned before you learned your own address. You have spent years trying to decide what belongs to you and what belongs to the people who came before you, and the line is not as clear as you hoped it would be. The year ahead asks you to carry what is yours to carry, but to carry it differently than it was carried before you. The inheritance was never just the burden. It was also the capacity to transform what cannot be set down.