Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Cancer season.
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph it, paint it, or even think about it much anymore. It is enough.
Toni Morrison
Some apologies will never come, and the year ahead is the one that asks you to stop organizing your days around their absence. You have been carrying a specific hurt that someone else put down years ago, and the weight of it has become so familiar you mistake it for part of who you are. But there is a difference between honoring what happened to you and letting what happened to you decide what happens next. The unspoken sorry sits between you and a dozen small freedoms you have not noticed you are refusing yourself. This is the year that stops asking what you were owed and starts asking what you actually want from the days you have left. The apology that never comes stops being the thing that decides whether you get to be happy.