Permission Slip

You are allowed to be tired.

You are allowed to do nothing

on a Sunday

and call it rest

instead of failure.

You are allowed to want more

than you have—

and to be grateful at the same time.

You are allowed to not have figured it out yet.

You are allowed to be

exactly this far along

in your story.

This is not a setback.

This is the chapter

before the good part.