Be As

Ben writes on what it means to leave things behind.

It is said in Hedwig that, to be free, one must give up a little piece of oneself.

A wise friend wrote to me once: "Being alive, and free to do as I please, makes me happy. I have thrown away those things that held me back. If I am doing wrong, then I trust that God will pardon me, on that great day of which prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe."

A haunting Judybats lyric says that what we lose, we become.

So it is that some things are, and ought to be, left behind.