Water in a Closed Fist

-Karthik Gurumurthy

Life moves forward whether we want it to or not. The tighter you hold on, like water in a closed fist, the faster it slips away. Let go, and you finally feel free.

Think of a parent who keeps trying to relive their child’s school years long after the child has grown, holding onto old routines, old rooms left untouched, old versions of a relationship that’s naturally evolved. The grip only brings pain. But the parent who learns to release that need, to let the relationship become something new instead of clinging to what it was, finds something unexpected: peace, and a fresh kind of closeness with who their child has become.