You keep counting who left. Count who stayed for once.
REFLECTION
REFLECTION
Loss is loud and loyalty is quiet. An absence announces itself every single day, while someone steady sits there unremarked, so your private tally fills with departures and leaves out everyone still in the room. The count is accurate and badly weighted at the same time.
Write down three people who are still here and what they actually do for you, specifically. Tell one of them you noticed. Keep that list somewhere you will see it when the other list starts running on its own.
Who stayed with you through the stretch you still call a loss?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.