At first, I didn’t give it much thought, but later, when I was alone myself, I started crying for a few minutes. Up until that point, I had no idea how much I had been dragging around my whole life.
I can’t really put into words how relieved I felt, like if a burden had finally been removed. I felt as if my actual weight had decreased. I once heard someone say,
“You make people feel seen.” It struck me because it’s simple to live your life without anybody noticing, but the knowledge that I might make someone feel important stayed with me.
