Stay for one song

Balance · Little Light original

Some evenings, you arrive home before the day has released you. The engine is off, your hand is near the door, and the next set of needs is already waiting inside. Moving immediately can feel responsible, yet your thoughts are still answering a conversation that ended miles ago. Stay for one song. Not to avoid the people or life beyond the windscreen, and not because a perfect ritual will erase a hard day. Give yourself three unclaimed minutes to notice that one part of the day has finished. Listen without opening another message. Breathe as you normally do. When the song ends, take only what still deserves to come through the door with you. A transition does not need to be impressive to be kind. Sometimes calm begins in a parked car, between one role and the next, when you allow yourself to arrive before asking yourself to continue.

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