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“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” — Stephen King
It didn’t reject you. It didn’t welcome you either.
You stood there longer than you needed to.
longer than you’d ever admit.
at the base of something that felt bigger than you had words for.
It wasn’t just a mountain. Not really. It was every version of your life you hadn’t lived yet, compressed into something visible. Something undeniable.
And you waited.
You can spend your whole life waiting for the right moment… and die having never begun.
Not for long, at least not physically. But internally? You had been waiting for years.
