Release is often imagined as leaving something behind. Sometimes it is quieter: giving up the expectation that we can return to the exact version of life that existed before change. Carroll’s line lands because yesterday is not only gone; we are different too. The past can still matter without becoming the place we keep trying to get back to. Renewal may begin when we stop asking the present to recreate what came before. What could you meet differently if you stopped trying to return to yesterday?