Letting Go Of The Story You Keep Retelling

Rittingo,

Doesn't it always mean releasing what happened?

Sometimes it means releasing the story you keep telling about it.

The words you repeat,

The explanations you revisit,

The version you carry every time it comes to mind.

Over time,

The story becomes heavier than the event itself.

Not because it's true,

But because it's familiar.

You've told it so many times that it feels like identity.

Notice how the body reacts when the story appears.

The same tension,

The same emotional posture,

The same conclusion.

The story keeps the moment alive,

Even when the moment is already over.

Rittingo,

Here,

Is not forgetting.

It's pausing the narration.

You don't need to justify what happened,

Right now.

You don't need to exclaim yourself to the past.

The story once helped you make sense of things.

It helped you survive confusion.

It helped you organize pain.

It helped you feel coherent.

But survival stories are not always meant to become permanent truths.

At some point,

They stop protecting and start limiting.

Notice how often the story speaks first.

Before reality,

Before choice,

Before presence.

It fills the silence automatically.

Letting go of the story creates space for something new to be experienced.

Not explained,

Not labeled,

Just experienced.

You are not asked to replace the story with a better one.

You're only invited to stop repeating it out of habit.

Right now,

You don't need to define what this means.

You don't need to decide who is right.

You don't need to conclude anything.

Even let the moment exist without narration,

Without commentary,

Without interpretation.

Notice how different the body feels when nothing is being explained.

Less tension,

Less defense,

Less positioning.

Your mind might reach for the story again.

That's okay.

You're not doing this wrong,

You're just noticing how automatic it became.

Each time you don't follow it,

The grip loosens,

The story loses urgency.

The moment gains space.

You are not the story.

You learn to tell.

You are the awareness that notices it's being told.

An awareness does not need to keep repeating itself.

You can leave the story where it belongs,

In the past,

In memory,

In context.

It does not need to narrate the present.

Right now,

There is no story required.

Only this moment as it is,

Without explanation.

And that,

By itself,

Is enough to let something go.