I felt the old sadness, but it didn’t take the whole day

Dear Delyara, A familiar sadness visited today. Nothing caused it exactly. Or maybe several small things did. But this time it didn’t swallow the whole day. It sat beside me for a while, made everything feel slightly heavier, then eventually moved enough for me to breathe again. That is progress for me. Not the absence of sadness. Just the fact that it no longer becomes my entire landscape every time it arrives.