DTH-X-0015
“I keep avoiding the conversation I know I need to have.”
The conversations we avoid are almost always the ones that matter most. And the avoidance is rarely about the other person — it is about our own discomfort with what might happen. Mortality makes this question simpler: if this person died tomorrow, or you did, would you be glad you waited?
Your Practice
Write down what you want to say in this conversation — the honest version, not the safe version. Read it. Then decide: is there a better time than now? If not, schedule the conversation for within the next 48 hours. Prepare what you actually want to communicate, not how to manage the other person's reaction.
The Architects
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book X