intention
You Go Have Da Conversation You Stay Putting Off
@highlandcalm Narrated by Frank York 2:17 23 shots
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Get one conversation you been carrying aroun, an you know exactly how heavy um stay. Been wit you since breakfast, for some time now. Da morning stay plain, nutting special, but still get everyting you need. Somewhere today get one five minute window wea you can jus say um, an five minutes, dat's all um need, fo real.
Two cups stay by da sink from last night. Da hallway light, nobody wen turn um off. One phone face down, still litto bit warm. Outside, get da regular sound of da street, no clue notting like dis stay happening, an somehow dat make you feel more steady.
You been practicing um instead of jus doing um. All dat practicing stay making everyting worse. Every time you run um through your head, get more details, an da details always go toward da worst case, cuz dat's wat one anxious mind stay practicing fo. Da reason why waiting cost so much is cuz da ting you no like say, no stay still. Um get harder, an da longer um stay inside, da more you gotta explain why you wen wait so long, an dat becomes part of da conversation too. So one five minute talk from three weeks ago, now stay forty minutes, an um keep growing every week you no deal wit um.
Ask yourself wat dis silence stay protecting. Look like patience, or kindness, or waiting fo da right moment, but underneath, mostly stay avoidance wearing one nice face. But you no stay choosing between uncomfortable an no uncomfortable. You stay choosing between one uncomfortable minute right now, or one low key discomfort dat already been running fo weeks an going keep running. Dat mean da one you been avoiding, dat's da cheap one, an da one you wen choose instead, dat's da expensive one.
So today, um go open up wit one plain sentence, no practice needed. Jus say da ting, no need one long introduction, no need explain why you get da right fo bring um up. Den stop talking, an let da odda person answer, dat part almost always turn out betta dan wat you wen imagine in your head.
Um going pau faster dan one of dose practice sessions inside your head. Da relief after, stay big time an instant, an you going wonder, fo one minute, wat all dose weeks was fo. Den you can put um down, an carry someting mo light.