Everything in your life can change in a single moment.

A few words — your mom is in the hospital. Someone saying, "I love you." Or "I'm done." Or something quieter: an internal click where suddenly things become clear and you move forward with a decision you've been circling for months.

There's a kind of wonder in that. And a kind of terror.

the uncomfortable part

If you're a high-agency person — someone used to taking charge, making things happen, bending the trajectory — this is an uncomfortable truth. You can prepare. You can position yourself. You can build every system, run every play. But you can't schedule the moment.

These inflection points aren't fully in your control. They never were.

This is one of the fundamental tensions of being alive: navigating your own will against what the world hands you. We control, to a certain extent, how we respond. But we don't control the catalyst.

the relief

There's anxiety in that. And also relief.

Because if you're in a tough season — if things have been hard for a while and the weight feels permanent — it may only take one small moment to shift everything. The season doesn't have to end gradually. It can turn on a dime.

You're always one moment away.