Let things go

No amount of guilt will rewrite the past.

No amount of anxiety will shape the future.

Yet we carry them—like stones in our pockets,

as if suffering now could undo what was,

or control what has yet to be.

Combini in Osaka Castle

But time does not barter with regret.

It does not bend for worry.

It only asks one thing—

that you live where your hands can touch,

where your breath still lingers,

where life is happening—

here. now.