So many women are not waiting because they lack courage. They are waiting for the timing to feel clean, safe, chosen, and under their control. But life rarely hands us that kind of doorway.
Sometimes the crisis is not the thing that creates the decision. It is the thing that finally stops us from postponing the decision we already knew was coming.
I think that's what surprised me most while writing it. The crisis wasn't creating the decision. It was exposing a decision that had already been quietly forming for a long time.
Sometimes the floor moves before we're ready, but sometimes that's the only thing that stops us negotiating with ourselves indefinitely.
“The floor doesn’t read the case. It just moves.”
So many women are not waiting because they lack courage. They are waiting for the timing to feel clean, safe, chosen, and under their control. But life rarely hands us that kind of doorway.
Sometimes the crisis is not the thing that creates the decision. It is the thing that finally stops us from postponing the decision we already knew was coming.
Yes.
I think that's what surprised me most while writing it. The crisis wasn't creating the decision. It was exposing a decision that had already been quietly forming for a long time.
Sometimes the floor moves before we're ready, but sometimes that's the only thing that stops us negotiating with ourselves indefinitely.
Thank you for such a thoughtful reflection.