i was facing some tough stuff recently. someone thought they were being helpful by telling me, “but look, you’ve already done the hardest part.”
neglected is the part about the work of carrying on through the valleys and ridges of life, knowing what you left behind is in fact behind you, and yet its shadow is still with you- and sometimes it’s more with you than other times. that is no small thing.
part of me is happy to watch certain parties self-destruct, thereby doing all the hard work for me. and perhaps that’s the better way, the more fitting way, in the end. but the other part of me has wanted to personally finish that job for some time. that’s that damn shadow lurking just over my shoulder.
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