You can choose differently without announcing that everyone choosing otherwise is wrong.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

A new choice often comes with a defensive speech attached. You change how you eat or where you live, and something in you wants to make the case out loud, because a choice feels safer when others are shown to be mistaken. But the choice does not need that support. Turning a preference into a verdict costs you the company of people who were not asking.

The next time you explain a decision, try stopping at what it does for you. Say you feel better this way, and leave the comparison out. If someone wants your reasoning, they will ask.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which of your choices do you defend by criticizing other people’s?

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