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You kept it
You gave something away and then remembered it. The good deeds you hold onto stop being about the person you gave them to and quietly become about you.
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You gave something away and then remembered it. The good deeds you hold onto stop being about the person you gave them to and quietly become about you.
We call it letting people be. But the word hides a claim: that you could have stopped them. Their joy never needed your permission.
Kindness only works when it's real. It's not a strategy. It's an open hand that invites rather than demands, corrects without wounding.

by Paulo Coelho