Monday Memo| Detail No.173| September 29, 2025

We’ve spent this month talking about the weights we carry: the burdens that belong to us and the ones that don’t, the pain of shattered expectations, the strife that strains our closest relationships, the quiet heaviness of comparison, and the questions that never seem to end. Naming these weights matters, because it’s only when we see them clearly that we can decide what to do with them. But there’s one more step, and it may be the hardest one of all: letting go. Letting go does not mean forgetting. It does not mean the hurt didn’t matter or the disappointment wasn’t real. It means you are choosing not to let those things define you anymore. You’re loosening your grip on what is crushing you so you can breathe again. The truth is, these weights don’t protect us. They only keep us tired, bitter, and disconnected from joy.

Letting go is an act of courage. It takes bravery to forgive when the apology never came, strength to release strife even when pride urges you to hold on, faith to believe your worth is not measured by failures, and tenderness to whisper to yourself: this doesn’t belong to me anymore. And as 2025 begins to draw toward its end, this choice feels even more urgent. The year has already carried its share of questions, disappointments, and setbacks, but there is no need to carry them forward. Let them rest here. Take only the good with you, the lessons, the moments of joy, the quiet victories. Leave behind the bitterness, the weight of failures, the fears that whisper you are not enough. Because when you let go, you don’t lose: you gain. You gain freedom, peace, and room for what is still ahead.

There is more to life than for it to be defined by heaviness. The heaviest part of carrying weights is believing you have no choice. But you do. And sometimes the bravest, most beautiful thing you can do as a year closes is exactly this: put them down. Let September be a turning point, the month you decide not to drag the old into the new. As the days shorten and the year edges closer to its close, let your hands be lighter, your heart softer, and your steps freer. May you enter the coming months not weighed by what broke you, but lifted by what healed you, shaped you, and reminded you of your strength. This is how we end not just a series, but a season with release, with peace, and with hope.