Status Updates From One Good Thing

Like old clothes that we haven't worn for years and no longer have any use for, but which we drag around with us in heavy suitcases.
The boyfriend who dumped you, the dad who criticized you, the kids at school who bullied you, the mum who abandoned you - all the ghosts of our pasts. The memories. The traumas.

“think how hard relationships can be to navigate as we get older. Not only the ones we have with our partners; but the ones we have with our friends and parents and siblings. Or is it us that makes them harder, with our layers of stuff that we accumulate?”