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- Put It Down. It Was Never Yours.
Put It Down. It Was Never Yours.
Some of what you are carrying belongs to other people. Their expectations. Their unhealed wounds. Their disappointment. Their chaos. Somehow it ended up on your back, and you've been walking with it so long it started to feel like yours. It isn't.
You are allowed to put it down. Not because you don't care, but because carrying what was never meant for you is slowly taking up the space your own joy should be living in.
Release it. Gently, firmly, without guilt.
Make room for yourself.
-Oluwademilade from MANI