As this new year begins, I don’t wish you more strength. I wish you less weight. There is a quiet suffering many carry into the new year not because something ended, but because the mind keeps calling it a loss.
Look closely.
The one who left was never yours.
The mind is very cunning.
It says, “I am sad because I lost him.”
But this is not the truth.
You are not sad because someone left.
You are sad because you accepted someone as yours.
Life never gives ownership.
It only allows meeting.
People walk with us for a while.
They share space, breath, moments, intimacy.
Then their path turns and ours continues.
That was always the design.
Pain begins the moment the mind says, “This should have stayed.” “This belonged to me.” Nothing that truly belongs to you can leave you. And nothing that leaves was ever meant to be possessed.
What you call loss is simply life moving.
What hurts is not the movement it is your resistance to it.
The mind turns passing moments into permanent claims.
It calls experience ownership.
It calls attachment love.
And when life continues, the mind feels cheated.
But life has cheated no one.
This new year, do not burden yourself with what was never yours to carry.
Do not turn departure into failure.
Do not drag absence into the present.
Take things as they are, not as the mind insists they should have been.
What came, came.
What stayed, stayed.
What left, completed its role.
You were not abandoned.
You were released.
And when you stop calling departure a loss, space opens for peace to settle, for clarity to return, for life to meet you again without fear.
Begin this year lighter.
Not by forgetting.
But by understanding.
एकात्म
