Born Today?

The conversation you have been avoiding is not going anywhere, and the longer you wait, the more weight it gathers in the space between you and the other person. What started as something you could handle later has become the thing that changes how you move through the room when they are in it. You know exactly which words you need to say, and you know exactly why you have not said them yet. The year ahead is the one that stops letting you pretend the conversation is harder than it actually is. What you have been calling complicated is mostly just uncomfortable, and what you have been calling impossible is mostly just inconvenient. The real work is not finding the right words or the right moment. The real work is deciding that the discomfort of speaking is smaller than the cost of carrying this much quiet around with you.