How do I stop carrying the cases I couldn't close?

You carry the file home. The case you couldn't close waits for you at night. It's there again at 5 a.m. You tell yourself a good person would feel this weight. So you keep feeling it, as proof you're still good. But feeling it forever proves nothing. It only proves you haven't decided what's yours to carry. The crime was not yours. The system's limits were not yours. Your judgment was yours. Your effort was yours. Your next action is yours. Everything else is weight you picked up and never put down. You are not doing this alone. So stop carrying it alone. Say the case out loud to the person next to you. Let your team hold what they can hold. Carrying it in silence is a choice, not a virtue. And if the weight stays heavy for weeks, talk to someone trained to help carry it — that is wisdom, not weakness.