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the great untethering — when you stop carrying what was never yours to hold.
means To give up, leave behind, or surrender something or someone completely, often with the sense of doing so for good.
from From the Old French phrase 'mettre a bandon' — literally 'to put under someone's control or jurisdiction,' where 'bandon' meant power, authority, or decree (a cousin of 'ban'). To put a thing 'a bandon' was to leave it open to whoever might claim it, to relinquish your hold. English took it in as a verb around the 14th century, and over time the surrendering edge sharpened into the abandoning we know now: not handing over so much as walking away.
- latin root
- from a bandon, meaning under another's control
- double life
- means both to quit and to throw yourself fully in
- with abandon
- the phrase celebrates the very thing the word warns against
- law term
- abandonment can legally forfeit your property rights
- survival truth
- shedding dead weight is how anything keeps moving
ghost fleet of nouadhibou — over 300 abandoned ships rusting in mauritania's coastal waters since the 1980s
pripyat ukraine — city evacuated in 1986 after chernobyl nuclear disaster, 50,000 residents abandoned it within days
nara dreamland — disney-inspired theme park in japan that operated 1976-2010 before being abandoned and demolished in 2016