Someone once asked...
Someone answered with kindness...
Someone once told me they replayed a five-minute conversation for three days. Three days, for five minutes. I asked what they were hoping to find. They said, "Proof that I didn't sound stupid." Here's the uncomfortable truth: the other person probably stopped thinking about it before they'd even reached their car. We are, almost all of us, too busy narrating our own lives to spend much time editing yours. The tape keeps playing because you haven't given yourself permission to stop it, not because there's anything left to find.