Insights

There comes a time when you realise that not everything needs to be fixed.

For years, you may have switched off the lights, cleaned the mess, made the coffee, and quietly corrected what others left behind.

Not because anyone asked you to, necessarily, but because it was expected and perhaps because you couldn't comfortably leave things undone.

Then, with age, comes a little wisdom.

You realise that some things can simply be left as you found them.

The bathroom light can stay on. The kitchen can remain messy. Someone else can make the coffee.

It isn't your responsibility to constantly restore order to everything around you and strangely, there is freedom in walking past something that would once have demanded your attention.

Because when you continually fix everything, people can become accustomed to you fixing it. What you see as helping may simply become an expectation.

It doesn't mean you care less. It means you finally understand that your energy is valuable too.

Not everything is yours to fix, some things are simply yours to leave alone.

Thought-provoking reflections on life, identity and relationships, written in the style of a modern-day Socratic journal and told through poetic paradoxes and emotional honesty.

by Paul Strydom.

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