Undone

Two buttons fell off from my shirt earlier last week.

Maybe it was just wear and tear, or maybe it was the universe's quiet way of saying,

"Hey, slow down. Let me tell you something."
I almost brushed it off, but it lingered.


They say it's a bad sign when things fall apart, but I don't quite believe that.
Maybe it's just life showing us what needs attention.

There's something about things coming undone that mirrors the small unraveling we sometimes feel inside;

subtle, inconvenient, but honest.
That not everything has to stay perfectly held together all the time.


So later at the end of the week, I sat down, found a needle, took a thread and started sewing them back.

One slow loop after another.
The kind of small act that steadies my breathing without I even noticing.
The kind that reminds me how repair can be a form of prayer.


And somewhere in between the stitches, it felt like something in me realigned too.
A quiet knowing that not everything broken is a loss, some things are just asking to be held again, gently.
Maybe that's what resilience really is: not loud, not brave, not grand-

Just the grace of sitting with what's come undone and deciding it's still worth mending.

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