Falling Thoughts

On the soft turning of inner seasons and how letting go begins quietly

Autumn doesn’t ask

It doesn’t rush or resist

It sheds

And maybe you’re there too

Not broken

Not blooming

Just holding on to thoughts that once helped but now weigh

Not every leaf is meant to stay

Not every thought belongs to the next season

The trees know when to let go

In nature, letting go is a rhythm

Leaves fall not in protest but in readiness

Softly

Completely

Without drama

But in the mind

we cling

We loop

We rake the same thoughts into new piles as if that might change their weight.

Cognitive science calls them sticky thoughts

You may know them as “what if,” “should have,” or “this always happens.”

They are not truths

They are thought-leaves

And they fall too when we let them

When the mind won’t stop raking

Growth isn’t constantly sprouting

Sometimes it’s composting

Breaking down what no longer nourishes

Making space for what might grow later

Letting go is not surrender

It’s the season

It says: this thought no longer fits the light

Leaves I’m still carrying

What thought have I outgrown but still repeat

What belief curls like the wind around moments I try to warm

What might open if I stop clutching what once protected me

What autumn teaches the mind

“I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let something fall today

Some thoughts fall on their own

Others wait for your notice

They do not need to solve

Only naming

A pause long enough to drift

You are not emptying

You are returning to what can stay

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