Today, I’m grateful to the person who told me to speak up.
Truth is, I should have spoken up some time ago. I knew this. But I’d convinced myself that things were just the way they were. That, when it came to this particular topic, I’d just keep swimming in the shallow end of the limits of my imagination. That is, until all the stars seemingly aligned and this person gently, but firmly, insisted.
She’d known for some time what I’d been sitting on— what I’d been grappling with. And since it was my story to tell, she broached the subject, encouraging me to speak up. And I guess I was ready. Because I did.
Now, I’ll have to have the same conversation with someone else tomorrow. And possibly, to further seed fruitful change, I’ll have to speak with one more person. But what’s important is that I spoke up and have now set some wheels into motion.
And however things turn out, I’ll always be grateful to the lady who gave me exactly the right push at exactly the right time.