Thoughts
I love “there must have been a moment at the beginning where we could have said no.” It was a Reddit comment about someone ending up as the
guardian of a kid they didn’t want, somehow (they were honestly confused and unable to explain how). And I love it because it’s hilarious, because there definitely wasn’t a time to say “no.” Child-distribution isn’t something that you opt-out of. But I also love it because, isn’t that all of our lives? Aren’t there things where we’re like “surely I could’ve said no to this”—but you couldn’t have. Stuff doesn’t happen to you by default. And the stuff that does happen to us, we don’t have a say in. We all are where we are because of our decisions to do things and not do things and how we react to the things that we can’t control. And we know we’re in control, because we are, but that doesn’t mean we end up where we want to be. I’m the one that took every step but I’m still lost.
=> https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=44ebf380-38af-4d08-af86-a17785d4ba2a
Edit 12:14am Jan 2nd: Okay so I've Googled the quote and it's actually from a movie. Or maybe a play. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100519/characters/nm0000377) It's as of yet unclear whether my brain hallucinated the reddit-post context or if it was quoted there.