The right thing
So following on from our conversation yesterday, I thought about it further and realised well hell I have been doing 'the right thing' all along. Contrary to my belief that I have spent most of the last decade or so traipsing along the path of the non-righteous, I have actually been much more straight-laced it surprises me.
Let's see now.
I stayed with Wk even though it didn't feel good anymore because we'd invested 5 years together and I thought he was going to propose. So to dump him unceremoniously like I'd have had to at that time would have been the wrong thing. Road splits into a fork, I take the high road and fall off.
You said you were going away. I had a lot of views about that, and plenty to say, but said nothing. Because you were already going to leave with her. She had quit her job, packed her stuff, got her ticket. So it would have been wrong for me to step in at that point. Another fork in the road.
Friend told me you were staying together but not married. Again, wanted to say something or write or ask her to pass on a message, but felt it would have been inappropriate for me to step in since you were clearly happy and settled.
Ta Da!
We live our lives doing the right thing, most of the time, and live to regret it. Frankly, I don't think we're beyond doing something about it. It's just inertia and fear of the unknown that keeps us in place. So hell yeah, if I had the opportunity to live my life, at least partially, in the way I would've wanted to, then I will.
Let's see now.
I stayed with Wk even though it didn't feel good anymore because we'd invested 5 years together and I thought he was going to propose. So to dump him unceremoniously like I'd have had to at that time would have been the wrong thing. Road splits into a fork, I take the high road and fall off.
You said you were going away. I had a lot of views about that, and plenty to say, but said nothing. Because you were already going to leave with her. She had quit her job, packed her stuff, got her ticket. So it would have been wrong for me to step in at that point. Another fork in the road.
Friend told me you were staying together but not married. Again, wanted to say something or write or ask her to pass on a message, but felt it would have been inappropriate for me to step in since you were clearly happy and settled.
Ta Da!
We live our lives doing the right thing, most of the time, and live to regret it. Frankly, I don't think we're beyond doing something about it. It's just inertia and fear of the unknown that keeps us in place. So hell yeah, if I had the opportunity to live my life, at least partially, in the way I would've wanted to, then I will.
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