Wendy M Walsh

It can be really hard to recognize the ground you’ve taken when you’re focused on how far you still have to go.

Because most of the time, it doesn’t feel like some huge breakthrough.

It looks like the quiet yes.

The decision no one else knows you had to wrestle through.

Choosing differently when the old way would have been easier.

Laying something down.

Holding a boundary.

Catching the old thought and deciding you’re not going to agree with it this time.

Tiny decisions that can feel almost insignificant in the moment.

But think about navigation.

You can change your direction by only a few degrees and, over enough distance, end up somewhere completely different.

I think we underestimate how much our lives change the same way.

One small decision.
Then another.
Then another.

And while you’re in the middle of it, you may look around and think, Am I even getting anywhere?

You are.

Those small choices are shifting your direction.

Eventually you’ll look up and realize you’re standing somewhere you once prayed you’d get to.

Stay the course.

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