Taurus
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices available to us, and when the story no longer works we have to renegotiate it.
Joan Didion
The conversation you keep putting off has already begun in your head, and you have been practicing both sides of it for weeks now. What you think is delay is actually preparation, the slow work of finding the right words for something that matters enough to get right the first time. You have been listening to the weight of each possible opening, feeling how different phrasings land in your mouth before they ever reach the other person. The readiness you are waiting for is not courage but clarity, and it arrives not when you force it but when you finally trust what you have been quietly rehearsing.