what do you do when you already know the answer?
People often act like a hard decision is hard because the answer seems unclear, but the truth is the hardest decisions you will make in life are those where it feels like your heart and mind are at war with one another.
Sometimes the answers are painfully obvious
Sometimes we aren’t ready to accept what we know.
If I stay in something I’m fighting, does that make me a bad person? In the way a selfish person is looked at as ignorant ?
You know what would hurt less in the long run. You know what you would tell a girl in your situation. You know you need to walk away. Yet like a moth drawn to a flame you stay in the very thing that may destroy you.
It’s that word…”may” like you know the risk yet there’s a change you might not be consumed by what’s chasing you.
You Stay.
Not because it’s right, not because you don’t know better, but because it’s easier than to admit something.
The effort, the patients, the times where speaking up felt like a death sentence. Knowing that walking away fully means all that hardship was for nothing. Trying to be better wasn’t enough, but knowing you were never enough to begin with is what hurts the most.
Leaving forces you to grieve something that still has potential to be great.
I think that’s what people misunderstand about walking away. It’s not choosing between something good and something bad. It’s choosing between a similar hurt and an unfamiliar future. And sometimes the familiar hurt feels safer.
That’s where I find myself lately.
Conflicted.
Not because I don’t know the right decision.
because I do.
House of Laine
my girlhood, unfiltered.
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