If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
— Thomas Paine
STILLNESS
— Thomas Paine
STILLNESS
Trouble does not disappear when it is postponed. It gets handed forward, usually to someone with less power to refuse it, often to the people you most want to protect. Choosing to carry a difficulty now, while you have the strength and the standing, is one of the plainer forms of love. It is also the only honest version of the bargain, since the alternative is quietly billing someone else for your comfort.
Find the conversation, repair or debt you keep deferring and look at who holds it if you keep waiting. Then take the first step yourself, today if you can.
What hardship would you shoulder now to spare someone later?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.