Looking back,
perhaps there had been signs.
Why did I stop this at that particular moment?
Why did I choose to take that in, at that exact time?
When the answers reveal themselves later,
there is often a quiet sense of recognition—
“Oh, of course.”
To think, “I should have noticed back then,”
is merely hindsight.
With results already in hand,
one can say anything.
But that kind of certainty is both meaningless
and strangely unkind.
If I did my best,
then that was my best.
Was that a line from some film?
I cannot remember.
But that is how it feels.