THE LIE OF LATER

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“I kept waiting for the right time to live. Then I realized—no one was coming to deliver it.” — 2Bits


Later sounds safe. Responsible. Like healing can be scheduled, like truth can wait its turn. 


But later is a liar. 


Later is how you disappear while keeping the lights on. It's how decades vanish in the name of readiness.


Every time you said “not yet,” a piece of you folded itself smaller. Every time you waited for permission, the silence wrapped itself tighter. 


The truth? You won’t be more ready tomorrow. You’ll just be further from yourself.


This life doesn’t wait. It never did. So whatever you’ve been saving—for the right moment, the right version of you, the right audience—it’s time.


……. Pick one thing you’ve been postponing in the name of “someday”—the one that stirs anxiety just thinking about it. Do it today. One call. One truth. One step. Let discomfort point to where you need to act—and go there.

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