I don’t think the hardest part of making a decision is making it. I think the hardest part comes afterward. When the decision is over… But you aren’t. Life moves on with remarkable confidence. The conversation ends. The opportunity passes. The relationship changes. The plane leaves. The paper is signed. The chapter closes. Everything outside …
We have this quiet assumption that the moment we’re living in will still be there when we’re finally ready. So we wait. We chase. We tell ourselves, “Later.” Later, when I’m more healed. Later, when I’m more confident. Later, when I finally feel worthy of it. Without realizing it, we freeze the moment in our …
It doesn’t have to belong to you for you to miss it. Strange, isn’t it? We can grieve places we’ve never lived. Futures we’ve never stepped into. Conversations that never happened. People who never became ours. Sometimes we even grieve versions of ourselves we never got to become. How do you explain that kind of …