Na di first one only you get to carry

Something happen, and e don finish, but you still dey hold am. You fit feel di exact shape of am dis morning. Di kettle dey slowly boil and di light dey climb di wall di way e always do. Di event itself no reach four minutes. But you don dey carry am for days, and dat gap na di whole matter we go dey talk about for di next three minutes.

Dere is one mug wey you don already refill once. One jacket dey hang for chair. Outside, somebody dey drop bin, no wahala, for one world wia none of dis thing dey happen. Di room don hot pass before. Your jaw dey tight pass wetin e suppose be, and you only notice am because you go check.

Di thing wey happen pain you once. Everything wey come after na you dey tell yourself story about am. Make we talk am plain: di mind go treat memory of danger as if na live danger, so every time you replay am, you dey spend di same stress wey di original take, full price, but dis time no information dey inside. Na dat one make you fit tire finish for one Tuesday wey already end. You no weak because you dey replay am. Na system you dey run wey no fit tell di difference between real danger and memory of danger, and e never learn how to.

Separate di two tin and one of dem go stop to matter. Di event don finish and don seal; no version of today wia e go turn out different. But di story dey live, and na you dey write am now, for kitchen, cup dey your hand. So di pain wey come by itself no be di pain wey dey keep you up, na di second one, and na dat one only ever dey take instruction from anybody. Put down di notebook and e go stop to dey write. Dat one no be denial, na simple refuse to volunteer for round two.

So today, write am for paper, one sentence. Wetin happen, plain, no big grammar, no defense case. Den close di notebook, make e stay closed till tomorrow. One sentence dey enough to hold one tin without carrying am, and dat na di whole difference.

Di first one never dey optional. Di second one always dey optional, and na e be most of di weight. Drop am. Di morning still dey here and na yours.