There are burdens we carry that were never meant to be ours. Expectations placed on us by others. Guilt that does not belong to us. The weight of someone else’s disappointment, someone else’s silence, someone else’s version of who we should be. We hold onto these things out of habit, out of obligation, out of the quiet belief that we must always be what others need. We carry responsibilities that were never ours, apologizing for things that were never our fault, shrinking ourselves to fit into spaces we were never meant to belong. But not everything handed to us is ours to keep. Not every opinion must be carried. Not every unspoken expectation must be met. Sometimes, the heaviest burdens are the ones we were never supposed to hold in the first place. So take a moment. Ask yourself: Is this mine? The doubt. The fear. The pressure. The story you’ve been told about who you should be. Does it belong to you, or did someone else place it on your shoulders? You are allowed to set things down. You are allowed to walk away from what does not serve you. You are allowed to be lighter. Because not everything you carry was meant to be yours.