letting them be

Somewhere inside you
is a younger version of you
who did the best they could.

Not with clarity.

Not with what you know now.

Not with who you have now.

Just with what was available.

They chose things that don’t make sense anymore.
They stayed.
They left.
They didn’t speak.
They spoke too much.

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Not because they were failing.
Not because they didn’t care.

But because they were trying to survive.

In a world they didn’t know yet.

You don’t have to keep putting them on trial.

You don’t have to keep replaying it
with today’s understanding.

That version of you
was human.

Figuring things out.

Sometimes forgiveness
isn’t dramatic.
Sometimes it’s just
letting them be.

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