A pivot moves toward something. Running just moves away. Know which one you’re doing.

Leaving something can be the clearest decision available or the most expensive kind of avoidance, and from outside the two look identical. What separates them is whether there is a destination or only an exit. Neither is shameful. But if you cannot name what you are moving toward, the thing you are escaping tends to reassemble itself somewhere new.

Write down what you expect to be doing six months after the change. If the honest answer is mostly relief, sit with the decision a little longer. If you can describe the next place in real detail, you probably already know.