The Voice of Truth

I know you know how to handle shit. I am not worried about whether you are capable. You have been proving that for a long time. People trust you. They call when something goes wrong because they know you will figure it out.

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Somewhere along the way, being the person who can handle it became so normal that people stopped asking what handling all of it costs you. Advocating for somebody else may be easy while asking for what you need takes three days of thinking.

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You can make a complicated decision at work and then second-guess something simple at home because somebody you love might not like the answer. And because you are smart, you can usually explain why you do it.

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People usually find me around then. Explaining yourself has stopped feeling useful by itself, and you want to know what happens when you start doing something with what you know.