Splash

I wasn’t just letting go of a job, I was letting go of how I saw myself and how I imagined others saw me. I disappeared for a while. I walked, I slowed down, I lived more internally. Then when I was ready to explore more actively and come back into the world, I was very intentional about maintaining a level of silence and stillness.

A career is not a tangible object, it’s a framework. Helpful at times. But frameworks are meant to serve us, not the other way around.

Without something to prove or protect, you can start asking different questions. What matters when no one’s watching? What risks do I take when I have nothing to lose?

Less like a decision, more like a recognition. As if something in me already knew, and my only job was to get out of the way.