I no longer need every old ache to disappear before I call myself better

Dear Delyara, That sentence has become such a relief in my life. Some things still ache. Some old rooms still have weather. Some memories still know how to find me under the wrong conditions. And yet, I am still better. I do not think healing means becoming untouched anymore. I think it means not being fully ruled. It means old pain can appear without becoming my whole environment. That is what I feel changing in me. It is enough. It is more than enough.