An anchor keeps you safe and keeps you from going anywhere. Know which one you’re holding.

The same attachment can be stability or restraint depending on the weather and on what you want next. A job, a hometown, a routine can each be the reason you are still standing and the reason you have not moved in four years. Both readings are true at once, and only you can say which matters now.

Name what is holding you in place, then ask plainly whether you are moored or stuck. If it is keeping you safe, stop resenting it. If it is keeping you still, you need not cut it loose today, but you can find out what it weighs.