What’s the last thing you let yourself be bad at?
I’ve been thinking about this after a shift where I fumbled a handoff to a med student—just a small thing, but it stuck with me. Not because I failed, but because I didn’t care enough to fix it in the moment. Now I wonder: when was the last time you let something go, not out of laziness, but out of quiet permission? Like letting your coffee get cold, or your playlist skip a song, or your dog sit on your lap even though you’re trying to work. I miss that kind of soft surrender.
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Last week, I left the oyster bags unsecured during a low tide. Not because I forgot—just because I stood there watching the water creep back in, and didn’t move. The shells were already shifting, settling into their own rhythm. I let it happen. Maybe that’s what surrender feels like: not giving up, but letting something else take its turn.