When The Old Falls Away

Sometimes, it doesn’t break. It quietly loosens.

A thought, a belief, a version of you that no longer fits. You don’t shatter it. You simply stop carrying it.

We often resist this part. Not because we want to stay the same, but because letting go feels like forgetting who we were.

But what if it’s not loss? What if it’s space? What if something softer is asking to enter. But first, something older must bow and leave?

In the Dhammapada, it is said:

"As a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again."

You are not here to carry the old self forever. You are here to become light enough for the new one to arrive.

it may not be dramatic,

it may not even hurt,

but one day,

the story you keep telling simply stops making sense,

and in the space it leaves,

a quiet, not emptiness, possibility,

you begin to breathe in ways you forgot, you begin to walk without explaining why,

this is not escape,

this is emergence,

the old falls away not to punish,

but to prepare.

And if something feels like it’s leaving, let it go.

Not because you must, but because it has served what it came to serve.

You are not losing. You are making space.

Let it go. Let it open.

Echo back if you're letting go, and letting space be your next beginning.

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