10 min · There is a way of wanting something that quietly works against you, where wins lift you too high and losses drop you too low, and your steadiness rides up and down on things you cannot control.
10 min · Somewhere along the way, you started feeling answerable for everything, for outcomes, for other people's moods, for how a whole day turned out.
10 min · For these few minutes, you do not have to know what happens next. The mind keeps reaching forward, rehearsing disasters, grasping at any certainty it can invent.
10 min · Somewhere in you there is a grip, a tight need for things to turn out a certain way. You have been holding the result as if your worry could steer it.