"I'm not ready" but it's happening anyways - by Nix 🕊

the portals we’re terrified of passing through are what make us who we are

Childe Hassam, Summer Evening Paris 1889 I’m someone who likes to prepare. A best case scenario and also a backup scenario and a backup-backup scenario. Which means less deer-in-headlights when something goes awry, but it also means living in a perpetual state of constant fight or flight. I know what I’ll do if I leave. What I’ll do if I stay. It’s hard to come to terms with the reality that not all things are predictable or knowable. Who will enter your life; which opportunities will grace you; what ideas, concepts, places will take root. It seems to me now momentum is irrevocable —…

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